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Finding Aid for Cross-References

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

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A Note on Classics@

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

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1. Marilyn B. Skinner, Introduction

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

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2. Dirk Obbink, Sappho Fragments 58–59: Text, Apparatus Criticus, and Translation

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

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3. Jürgen Hammerstaedt, The Cologne Sappho: Its Discovery and Textual Constitution

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

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Part III: AthensCh. 8. Arete and Nausicaa

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

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Ch. 9. The City Goddess of Athens

Chapter 9. The City Goddess of Athens {391|393} §3.39 The Phaeacian king and queen are the key to the relationship between Athena Polias and Erechtheus as it once was. Aspects of this relationship, like Athena’s change from virgin goddess to mother goddess in the context of the Plynteria, can be reconstructed only indirectly from the Phaeacian parallel and must therefore remain obscure; other aspects of the relationship… Read more

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Endnotes, Part III

Endnotes, Part 3 EN3.1 (Endnote to n3.16) {486|487} Cults of Damia and Auxesia had elements in common with cults of Demeter and Kore; Pausanias, who saw and sacrificed to the images of Damia and Auxesia in Aegina, says that their sacrifice was like that in Eleusis (εἶδόν τε τὰ ἀγάλματα καὶ ἔθυσά σφισι κατὰ <τὰ> αὐτὰ καθὰ δὴ καὶ Ἐλευσῖνι θύειν νομίζουσιν, Pausanias 2.30.4). Herodotus too… Read more

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Part IV: IoniaCh. 10. The Panionic League

Part 4. Ionia Chapter 10. The Panionic League {511|515} §4.1 Nestor, as discussed in Part 2 above, plays an extensive role beneath the surface of the Homeric poems; this role is based on Nestor’s twin myth, which is itself kept hidden from view in the poems. Nestor’s brother Periklymenos, who is mentioned but once in the poems, is Nestor’s partner in this old myth, which is… Read more