In Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody, 1602, are some Sapphics by the mysterious “A. W.” Here is a sample:
In 1601 Campion and Roseter, Lyrics, Elegies, etc., give a clumsy example of Sapphic verse. In 1614 a tract called The Martyrdom of Saint George of Cappadocia contains at the end some “Sapphicks” which resemble the real Sappho only in having the same number of syllables to the verse. Cox and all others, so far as I know, fail to mention Sir Philip Sidney’s translation of the second ode.
178. Cf. W. C. Lawton, Sappho with some new translations, Lippincott Magazine, 77, 583; W. A. R. Kerr, “Sappho’s Soliloquy,” in Canadian Magazine, 12, 426; E. Saltus, “Sappho” in Lippincott’s Magazine, 51, 503; M. Thompson, “The Secret of Sappho,” in The Atlantic Monthly, 73, 365; M. Gray, “Sappho,” in Argosy, 51, 203; Athenaeum, 1889, 2, 56; F. B. Harte, “Sappho of Green Springs,” in Lippincott’s Magazine, 45, 627; Democratic Review, 7, 18; Higginson, in The Atlantic Monthly, 28, 83; G. Hill, in Appleton’s Journal, 6, 158, 179; Mrs. Hamilton in Harper’s, 56, 177 (has nothing to do with the real Sappho); M. Thompson, “Sappho’s Apple,” in The Independent, 53, 416; A. Chisholm, in Canadian Magazine, 15, 453; Reinach, Révue Archéologique, XXIV, 1914, 2, pp. 336-337; IX, 1919, p. 204; X, 1919, p. 225; H. I. R., Fragment of a Poem by Sappho done into English verse, in The Literary Digest, 48, 1493; “Real Personal Character of the Poetess Sappho,” in The Review of Reviews, 46, 107-8; Swinburne, “Sappho,” in The Living Age, 280, 817-8; W. L. Courtney, “Sappho and Aspasia,” in The Fortnightly Review, N. S. 91 (1912), 479-88; “Sappho from the Dust,” in The Literary Digest, 48, 1362-3; M. M. Miller, “Sappho’s Songs of Exile,” in The Independent, 87, 344; New York Nation, 1914, 1, p. 602; Aldington, “Letters to Unknown Women,” in The Dial, 64, 430-1; W. A. Percy, Sappho in Leukas and Other Poems, New Haven, 1915; Horton, “New Sappho Fragment in English Verse,” in The Dial, 61, 179; Michael Monahan, “Sappho,” in All’s Well or the Mirror Repolished, II, 1922, pp. 87 ff.; Robinson, in The Baltimore Sun, Jan. 22, 1922.
178a. In Charmides he says: “Or from the Lesbian waters plucked drowned Sappho’s golden quill.”
179. See Pericles and Aspasia, Letters 47, 48, 82, 95, 149, 150, 152, 153.
180. Idyls of the King, Lancelot and Elaine, 1003-1004. Not in Mustard, Classical Echoes in Tennyson, New York, 1904.
181. Lyrics and Sonnets (Edinburgh, 1903), p. 66.
182. Miller-Robinson, Songs of Sappho.
183. Litz, Father Tabb, Johns Hopkins Press, 1923, p. 168.
184. Collected Poems, New York, 1922, pp. 227-228.
185. Art and Archaeology, XII. 217 (1921).
186. Sappho in Leukas and other Poems, Yale University Press, 1915.
187. Art and Archaeology, XV. 13 (1923).
188. J. U. Nicolson, King of the Black Isles, p. 3, Chicago, 1924.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT BOOKS ON SAPPHO
Aly, see Pauly-Wissowa.
Bascoul, J. M. F., La chaste Sappho de Lesbos et le mouvement féministe à Athènes au IVe siècle av. J. C. Paris. 1911.
Bascoul, J. M. F., La chaste Sappho de Lesbos et Stésichore. Les prétendues amies de Sappho. Paris, 1913.
Bergk, Th., Poetae Lyrici Graeci. Vol. III, Leipzig, 1914.
Bethe, E., Griechische Lyrik. Berlin, 1920.
Brandt, Lida R., Social Aspects of Greek Life in the Sixth Century B.C. Philadelphia, 1921.
Brandt, P., Sappho, ein Lebensbild aus den Frühlingstagen altgriechischer Dichtung. Leipzig, 1905.
Bunner, Anne, see Wharton.
Carman, Bliss, Sappho, One Hundred Lyrics. Boston, 1904.
Carroll, M., Greek Women. Philadelphia, 1907.
Christ, W. von—Schmid, W., Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur. Munich, 1912.
Cox, E. M., Sappho and the Sapphic Metre in English. London, 1916. Poems of Sappho. London, New York, 1924.
Cipollini, A., Saffo. Milan, 1890.
Croiset, A., Histoire de la Litterature Grecque (vol. II, pp. 226-244). Paris, 1898.
De Courten, Maria L. G., Saffo (Supplementi ad “Aegyptus”). Milan, 1921.
Diehl, E., Supplementum lyricum[3] (Kleine Texte, 33-34). Bonn, 1917.
Edmonds, J. M., The New Fragments of Alcaeus, Sappho and Corinna. Cambridge, 1909.
Edmonds, J. M., Sappho in the Added Light of the New Fragments. Cambridge, 1912. (Has some poetical translations.)
Edmonds, J. M., Lyra Graeca, I, in The Loeb Classical Library. New York, 1922. [Abbreviated as E.]
Edmonds, J. M., Various articles in Classical Review, Classical Quarterly and Cambridge Philological Society’s Proceedings, from 1909 to 1922.
Farnell, G. S., Greek Lyric Poetry. London, 1891.
Glaser, R., Sappho, die zehnte Muse (Südwest-deutsche Monatsblätter). 1916.
Grenfell, B. P., and Hunt, A. S., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vols. I-XV, especially I, X, and XV. London, 1898. 1922.
Higginson, T. W., Atlantic Essays. Boston, 1871.
Latini, Giov., Saffo, Mimnermo e Catullo. Viterbo, 1914.
Lavagnini, B., I Lirici Greci. Turin, 1923.
Lobel, E., Sappho. Oxford, 1925.
Mackail, J. W., Lectures on Greek Poetry (pp. 83-112). London and New York, 1911.
Meabe, T., Saffo (Spanish translation). Paris, 1913.
Merino, A. Fernandez, Estudios de Literatura Griega. Safo ante la crítica moderna.[3] Madrid, 1884.
Meunier, M., Sappho, Traduction nouvelle de tous les fragments. (Has not recent fragments.) Paris, 1911.
Milburn, Lucy McD., Lost Letters from Lesbos. Chicago, 1902.
Miller, Marion Mills, and Robinson, D. M. The Songs of Sappho (Greek text of all Sappho, of all the epigrams about her, of Erinna, of the new papyrus biography of Sappho, etc., prepared and annotated and literally translated by D. M. Robinson.) Introduction on The Recovery and Restoration of the Egyptian Relics of Sappho and a critical Memoir of the Real Sappho by D. M. Robinson. Introduction by M. M. Miller on the Sapphic Metre, and Poetical Adaptations of Sappho. New York, 1924.
Mustard, W. P., Classical Echoes in Tennyson. New York, 1904.
O’Hara, J. M., The Poems of Sappho. Portland, 1910.
Osborn, Percy, Poems of Sappho. London, 1909.
Pasella, Pietro, I Frammenti di Alceo e di Saffo tradotti. Rome, 1922.
Patrick, Mary Mills, Sappho and the Island of Lesbos. Boston, 1914. Reprinted, 1924.
Pauly-Wissowa,—Kroll-Witte, Real-Encyclopädie. Exhaustive article on Sappho by Aly. Stuttgart, 1920.
Petersen, W., The Lyric Songs of the Greeks. Translated into English Verse. Boston, 1918.
Reinach, Th., Pour mieux connaître Sappho (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Paris, 1911.
Robinson, D. M. See Miller-Robinson.
Scollard, C. L.,—Jones, T. S., Sapphics. Clinton, N. Y., 1910.
Sitzler, J., Bibliography on Sappho in Bursian (Kroll) Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. CXXXIII, 1907, pp. 104 ff., pp. 176 ff., CLXXVIII, 1919, pp. 46 ff.
Smith, J. S. Easby, Songs of Sappho. Washington, D. C., 1891.
Smyth, H. W., Greek Melic Poets. London, 1900.
Stacpoole, H. D. V., Sappho, a new rendering. London 1920.
Stanley, Albert A., Greek Themes in Modern Musical Settings. (Includes, pp. 1-68, Music to Percy Mackaye’s Sappho and Phaon). University of Michigan Humanistic Studies, XV, 1923.
Stebbing, W., Greek and Latin Anthology thought into English Verse. Part III, Greek Epigrams and Sappho. Adaptations and Expansions of Sappho. None of the new fragments included. London, 1923.
Steiner, B., Sappho. Jena, 1907.
Storer, Edward, Sappho (Poets Translation Series). London, 1916.
Tucker, T. G., Sappho. Melbourne, Australia, 1914.
Tutin, J. R., Sappho, The Queen of Song. London and Boston, 1914.
Vivien, Renée [pseudonym of an American lady, Pauline Tam, 1877-1909, who lived in Paris], Sappho, traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec. Paris, 1903. Reprinted in the anonymous Sappho et huit poetesses grecques. Texte et reduction. Paris, 1909.
Wagner, R., Übersetzung der grösseren Bruchstücke Sapphos im Versmass des Originals nebst erläuternden Bemerkungen. 1916.
Walther, W., Sappho aus dem Griechischen übersetzt. Leipzig, 1914.
Way, A. S., Sappho and The Vigil of Venus. London, 1920.
Way, A. S., Sappho. London, 1923.
Wharton, H. T., Sappho, memoir, text, selected renderings and a literal translation (with a collection also of poetic translations and paraphrases by various authors). First edition, London, 1885. Second edition, London and Chicago, 1887. Third edition, London, 1895. Fourth edition, 1898, and fifth edition, London, 1907. First edition without the revisions of later editions reprinted by Brentano, New York, in 1920, with metrical paraphrases of Sappho by Anne Bunner.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von, Textgeschichte der griechischen Lyriker. Berlin, 1901.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff und Schubart, Berliner Klassikertexte, Heft V. Berlin, 1907.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von, Sappho und Simonides (with translations). Berlin, 1913.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von, Griechische Verskunst. Berlin, 1921.
Wright, F. A., Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle. New York, 1923.
KEY TO ILLUSTRATIONS
| PLATE | |
| 2. | Pittacus, Lord of Lesbus. See text page 22. |
| 3. | Mytilene. See text page 23. |
| 4. | The Story of Phaon. See text page 40. |
| 5. | The Beautiful Phaon. See text page 40. |
| 6. | The Leucadian Promontory. See text page 40. |
| 7. | Roman Fresco. See text page 42. |
| 8. | A Papyrus of the Third Century A.D. See text page 46. |
| 9. | A Cylix by Sotades. See text page 93. |
| 10. | A Greek Coin from Mytilene. See text page 101. |
| 11. | Imperial Coins. See text page 101. |
| 12. | A Greek Vase. See text page 103. |
| 13. | A Black-Figured Calpis. See text page 104. |
| 14. | Lost Lucanian (?) Vase. See text page 104. |
| 15. | Greek Aryballus. See text page 105. |
| 16. | A Fifth Century Greek Hydria. See text page 106. |
| 17. | Phaon about to Ferry Aphrodite across the Sea. See text page 108. |
| 18. | A Pompeian Fresco. See text page 108. |
| 19. | An Ancient Bust Probably of Sappho. See text page 111. |
| 20. | The Oxford Bust, Probably of Sappho. See text page 112. |
| 21. | Bust Probably of Sappho. See text page 112. |
| 22. | Statue of Sappho. See text page 114. |
| 23. | A Statue of Sappho. See text page 115. |
| 24. | Raphael’s Parnassus. See text page 117. |
Plate 2. PITTACUS, LORD OF LESBUS
One of the seven wise men of Greece, in whose reign Sappho was perhaps banished to Sicily. The bust was found in Asia Minor in a Roman villa (100 A.D.). Formerly in Baltimore in the collection of David M. Robinson, now in the Museum of Budapest. Cf. The Annual of the Budapest Museum, II, 1919-1920, p. 3. For other replicas cf. Lippold, Griechische Porträt-Statuen, p. 72
Plate 3. MYTILENE
Looking across the severing sea to Asia Minor
Plate 4. THE STORY OF PHAON
From a fifth century hydria in Florence by the Meidias painter himself. Phaon, tired of the ladies’ love-making, is seated in the middle below with the inscription “Phaon” over his head. Aphrodite is above in a chariot drawn by Pothos and Himeros. Reproduced from Milani, Monumenti Scelti del R. Museo Archeologico di Firenze, pl. III
Plate 5. THE BEAUTIFUL PHAON
On a Greek vase in Palermo. Reproduced from Furtwängler-Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, pl. 59
Plate 6. THE LEUCADIAN PROMONTORY
From an old engraving reproduced by Miss Patrick, Sappho and the Island of Lesbos, p. 96
Plate 7. ROMAN FRESCO
In an underground building found in Rome near the Porta Maggiore, showing to the left Apollo with lyre on the cliff, and to the right Sappho about to step off the rock into the sea, where a Triton waits with outspread garment. Behind Sappho higher up on the rock a winged Eros
Plate 8. A PAPYRUS OF THE THIRD CENTURY A.D.
With part of the text of a poem by Sappho. Reproduced from Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XV, 1922, No. 1787, fragment 1, pl. II
Plate 9. A CYLIX BY SOTADES
In the British Museum, representing a girl on tiptoe plucking the apple on the topmost bough. Reproduced from White Athenian Vases in the British Museum, pl. XVII
Plate 10. A GREEK COIN FROM MYTILENE
Showing probably Sappho’s head on one side and lyre on other. Enlarged twice the original size. Reproduced from Miss Patrick, Sappho and the Island of Lesbos, p. 73
Plate 11. IMPERIAL COINS
In the British Museum, representing Sappho. Reproduced from Miss Patrick, op. cit., p. 81
Plate 12. A GREEK VASE
In Munich, representing Alcaeus and Sappho. Reproduced from Furtwängler-Reichhold, op. cit., pl. 64
Plate 13. A BLACK-FIGURED CALPIS
Formerly in the Dzialinsky collection at Paris, now in Cracow, in the style of the Nicoxenus painter, with the earliest (about 500 B.C.) inscribed representation of Sappho
Plate 14. LOST LUCANIAN (?) VASE
Formerly in the Middleton collection. Sappho seated before a winged Eros who is bringing her a wreath. Reproduced from Museo Italiano, II, 1888, pl. III, 2
Plate 15. GREEK ARYBALLUS
In the style of the Meidias painter, in the Jatta collection at Ruvo, representing Thamyris giving a musical recital in the presence of Apollo, Aphrodite, and the Muses, among whom Sappho is included. Reproduced from Römische Mitteilungen, III, 1888, pl. IX
Plate 16. A FIFTH CENTURY GREEK HYDRIA
From Vari near Athens, showing Sappho seated and reading from a papyrus. According to Beazley the style is related to that of the Hector painter, though not by him. Reproduced from Jahreshefte, VIII, 1905, p. 40, Fig. 9
Plate 17. PHAON ABOUT TO FERRY APHRODITE ACROSS THE SEA
On a Greek vase in Bologna. Reproduced from Pellegrini, Catalogo dei Vasi Greci dipinti delle Necropoli Felsinee, Fig. 77
Plate 18. A POMPEIAN FRESCO
Supposed to represent Sappho and Alcaeus. Reproduced from Herrmann-Bruckmann, Denkmaeler der Malerei des Altertums, pl. 28
Plate 19. AN ANCIENT BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO
In the Villa Albani, Rome. Reproduced from Arndt-Brunn-Bruckmann, Griechische und Römische Porträts, pls. 147-148
Plate 20. THE OXFORD BUST, PROBABLY OF SAPPHO
Reproduced from Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXXVIII, 1918, pl. III
Plate 21. BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO
In the Borghese Palace, Rome. Photographed in the summer of 1922
Plate 22. STATUE OF SAPPHO
By Magni
Plate 23. A STATUE OF SAPPHO
By Pradier
Plate 24. RAPHAEL’S PARNASSUS
In the Vatican. Sappho is leaning on the left side of the doorway
Our Debt to Greece and Rome
AUTHORS AND TITLES
1. Homer. John A. Scott, Northwestern University.
2. Sappho. David M. Robinson, The Johns Hopkins University.
3A. Euripides. F. L. Lucas, King’s College, Cambridge.
3B. Aeschylus and Sophocles. J. T. Sheppard, King’s College, Cambridge.
4. Aristophanes. Louis E. Lord, Oberlin College.
5. Demosthenes. Charles D. Adams, Dartmouth College.
6. Aristotle’s Poetics. Lane Cooper, Cornell University.
7. Greek Historians. Alfred E. Zimmern, University of Wales.
8. Lucian. Francis G. Allinson, Brown University.
9. Plautus and Terence. Charles Knapp, Barnard College, Columbia University.
10A. Cicero. John C. Rolfe, University of Pennsylvania.
10B. Cicero as Philosopher. Nelson G. McCrea, Columbia University.
11. Catullus. Karl P. Harrington, Wesleyan University.
12. Lucretius and Epicureanism. George Depue Hadzsits, University of Pennsylvania.
13. Ovid. Edward K. Rand, Harvard University.
14. Horace. Grant Showerman, University of Wisconsin.
15. Virgil. John William Mackail, Balliol College, Oxford.
16. Seneca. Richard Mott Gummere, The William Penn Charter School.
17. Roman Historians. G. Ferrero, Florence.
18. Martial. Paul Nixon, Bowdoin College.
19. Platonism. Alfred Edward Taylor, University of Edinburgh.
20. Aristotelianism. John L. Stocks, University of Manchester, Manchester.
21. Stoicism. Robert Mark Wenley, University of Michigan.
22. Language and Philology. Roland G. Kent, University of Pennsylvania.
23. Rhetoric and Literary Criticism. (Greek) W. Rhys Roberts, Leeds University.
24. Greek Religion. Walter W. Hyde, University of Pennsylvania.
25. Roman Religion. Gordon J. Laing, University of Chicago.
26. Mythologies. Jane Ellen Harrison, Newnham College, Cambridge.
27. Theories Regarding the Immortality of the Soul. Clifford H. Moore, Harvard University.
28. Stage Antiquities. James T. Allen, University of California.
29. Greek Politics. Ernest Barker, King’s College, University of London.
30. Roman Politics. Frank Frost Abbott, Princeton University.
31. Roman Law. Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law School.
32. Economics and Society. M. T. Rostovtzeff, Yale University.
33. Warfare by Land and Sea. E. S. McCartney, University of Michigan.
34. The Greek Fathers. Roy J. Deferrari, The Catholic University of America.
35. Biology and Medicine. Henry Osborn Taylor, New York.
36. Mathematics. David Eugene Smith, Teachers College, Columbia University.
37. Love of Nature. H. R. Fairclough, Leland Stanford Junior University.
38. Astronomy and Astrology. Franz Cumont, Brussels.
39. The Fine Arts. Arthur Fairbanks, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
40. Architecture. Alfred M. Brooks, Swarthmore College.
41. Engineering. Alexander P. Gest, Philadelphia.
42. Greek Private Life, Its Survivals. Charles Burton Gulick, Harvard University.
43. Roman Private Life, Its Survivals. Walton B. McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania.
44. Folk Lore.
45. Greek and Roman Education.
46. Christian Latin Writers. Andrew F. West, Princeton University.
47. Roman Poetry and Its Influence upon European Culture. Paul Shorey, University of Chicago.
48. Psychology.
49. Music. Théodore Reinach, Paris.
50. Ancient and Modern Rome. Rodolfo Lanciani, Rome.