Chapter Four. Homer the Classic in the Age of Pheidias 4ⓢ1. Homer as a spokesman for the Athenian empire 4§1 In Chapter 3, my argumentation was limited to showing that Plato’s Homer, as reflected in such virtual dialogues as the Ion and the Hippias Minor, was… Read more
Chapter 5. Tithonus in the “New Sappho” and the Narrated Mythical Exemplum in Archaic Greek Poetry Lowell Edmunds carminis fi nem statueram, nunc dubito —M.L. West [1] At present, some think that the twelve lines of the “New… Read more
Chapter 6. No Way Out? Aging in the New (and Old) Sappho Deborah Boedeker I will not rehearse in detail the brief but exciting history of the “New Sappho” Cologne papyrus that was published in 2004 by Michael Gronewald and Robert Daniel, familiar as it… Read more
Chapter 7. Acceptance or Assertion?Sappho’s New Poem in its Books Joel Lidov That time of year thou mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where… Read more
Chapter 8. The Meter and Metrical Style of the New Poem Joel Lidov POxy. 1787, including Sappho 58 V—and so the “New Poem”—has been assigned to Book Four of the Alexandrian edition of her works since its first publication (Ox. Pap. XV:26; cf. Lobel 1925:xii). Because… Read more
Chapter 9. “Once” and “Now”: Temporal Markers and Sappho’s Self-Representation Eva Stehle It is well known that memory plays an important role in Sappho’s poetry. As scholars have emphasized, Sappho vividly evokes the past, even “blurs” past and present, through her poetic recall. [1]… Read more
Chapter 10. The New Sappho in a Hellenistic Poetry Book [1] Dee Clayman While most of the interest in the “New Sappho” (Köln. Inv. Nr. 21351 + 21376) has rightly centered on the “Tithonus” poem, fragments of another precede it on… Read more
Chapter 11. Sappho 58: Philosophical Reflections on Death and Aging [1] Ellen Greene Although most contemporary scholars are in agreement that Sappho’s verse appropriates themes and poetic conventions employed by both Homer and male lyric poets, there is considerable disagreement about… Read more
Chapter 12. A Reading of Sappho Poem 58, Fragment 31 and Mimnermus [1] Marguerite Johnson Much has been written on the Sapphic gaze, primarily in relation to the representation of the various personae in her poems and fragments. [2]… Read more
Chapter 13. The “New Sappho” Reconsidered in the Light of the Athenian Reception of Sappho Gregory Nagy The text of the “New Sappho,” found in a Cologne papyrus dated to the third century BCE (P.Köln inv. 21351 + 21376), is different from a later text of… Read more
