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
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
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
