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 166

166A Scholiast on Homer, Iliad, iii. 219, says:—

‘Sappho said πολυΐδριδι of much knowledge as the dative of πολύϊδρις.’

← 165MISCELLANEOUS167 →