THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO READING SAPPHO

Sappho: Wharton’s translation, and everything around it

Home Choosing a Translation Read Sappho Full Text

Wharton’s Edition

Prefaces and In Memoriam Life of Sappho Sappho to Phaon

Reading Companion

The Most Cited Fragments Concordance of Fragment Numbers Key Words and Forms Translating Sappho How Sappho’s Poems Survived

Background

The Ancient Lives of Sappho The World of Sappho Further Reading

About

The Writers Who Preserved Her About This Edition Privacy and 404

The Complete Guide to Reading Sappho

Fragment 132

132The Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius says:—

‘Apollonius calls Love the son of Aphrodite, Sappho of Earth and Heaven.’

But the Argument prefixed to Theocritus, Idyl xiii., says:—

‘Sappho called Love the child of Aphrodite and Heaven.’

And Pausanias, about 180 A.D., says:—

‘On Love Sappho the Lesbian sang many things which do not agree with one another.’ Cf. fr. 74.

← 131MISCELLANEOUS133 →