Conclusion {780|781} Starting from an Indo-European comparison the foregoing study has followed out the consequences of that comparison for the Homeric poems, including a reconstruction of the circumstances in which the poems were first composed on a monumental scale. To reach this point in the argument the role of the Homeric Phaeacians has been the bridge, and to understand the Phaeacians Nestor has been the key. Nestor’s… Read more
Bibliography Ager, S. L. 1996. Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337–90 B.C. Berkeley. Alden, M. 2000. Homer Beside Himself: Para-Narratives in the Iliad. Oxford. Allen, T. W., ed. 1912. Homeri Opera V. Oxford. ———. 1924. Homer: The Origins and the Transmission. Reprint 1969. Oxford. ———. 1928. “Miscellanea.” Classical Quarterly 22:73–76. Allen, T. W., and Sikes,… Read more
List of Print and Online Images Figures (Print and Online) Figure 1. Reconstruction of a terracotta plaque from the Athenian Acropolis, c. 500 BC. After Le Lasseur 1919:104, fig. 48.For discussion, see note 3.32. Figure 2. Reconstruction of a terracotta plaque from the Athenian Acropolis, c. 500 BC. After Le Lasseur 1919:98, fig. 47.For discussion, see… Read more
Finding Aid for Cross-References Part One: Nestor’s Indo-European Background Chapter One: The Problem; §1.1–§1.12, nn1.1–1.26.Chapter Two: Greek; §1.13–§1.41, nn1.27–1.116.Chapter Three: Vedic; §1.42–§1.69, nn1.117–1.225. Part Two: Nestor’s Homeric Role Chapter Four: Iliad 11; §2.1–§2.18, nn2.1–2.26.Chapter Five: Iliad 23; §2.19–§2.55, nn2.27–2.70.Chapter Six: Odyssey 3 and Iliad 8; §2.56–§2.99, nn2.71–2.127.Chapter Seven: Odyssey 11 and the Phaeacians; §2.100–§2.168, nn2.128–2.244. Part Three: Athens… Read more
A Note on Classics@ This volume, The New Sappho on Old Age, is Issue 4 of the Center for Hellenic Studies journal Classics@, available free online from the Center’s website (http://chs.harvard.edu). The goal of Classics@ is to bring the best of contemporary classical scholarship to a wide audience. Each issue is dedicated to its own topic, often with guest editors, for an in-depth exploration of important current… Read more
Chapter 1. Introduction Marilyn B. Skinner Papyrological finds, no matter how momentous for papyrologists and other specialists studying the ancient world, ordinarily do not make international headlines. Yet M. L. West’s 2005 article in the Times Literary Supplement announcing the apparent recovery of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have survived almost complete, was quickly picked up by newspapers on both sides… Read more
Chapter 2. Sappho Fragments 58–59: Text, Apparatus Criticus, and Translation Dirk Obbink “The New Sappho” actually comprises a group of papyrus fragments, quotations, and testimonia for Sappho’s poetry dating back more than two millennia. Scholars who were amazed to learn that Sappho had “composed a new poem” when Edgar Lobel published it a half-century ago—she had, after all, been dead for over 2600 years—would have been… Read more
Chapter 3. The Cologne Sappho: Its Discovery and Textual Constitution Jürgen Hammerstaedt Discovery and Acquisition In 2002 a group of more than 20 papyri was on the market. They belonged to a private collector outside Egypt. We do not know how and when the papyri became his property. But only after acquisition by the Cologne Papyrus Collection could these ancient documents of inestimable cultural value… Read more
Chapter 4. The New Sappho Poem (P.Köln 21351 and 21376): Key to the Old Fragments André Lardinois The Egyptian desert continues to reveal to us its treasures. The most spectacular find in recent years is probably the Milan papyrus, containing over one hundred new epigrams of the Hellenistic poet Posidippus, published in 2001. [1] No less spectacular is the… Read more
Part 3. Athens Chapter 8. Arete and Nausicaa {338|341} §3.1 Odyssey 3 brings together two figures, Nestor and Athena, whose functions are related in the story of Odysseus’s return: Nestor is the “homebringer” who ten years earlier failed to bring Odysseus back from Troy; Athena is the goddess who has now undertaken to free Odysseus from Calypso’s island and bring about his long delayed return home. Read more
