Poetry of Sappho

Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives today.

Textual history

Sappho probably wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry; today, 650 survive.[1] Around the second century BC, these were edited into a critical edition by scholars in Alexandria. The Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry was divided up into a number of books: the exact number is uncertain, though there seem to have been at least eight.[2] These books were probably divided up by metre, as ancient sources tell us that each of the first three books contained poems in a single specific metre.[3]

In addition to the Alexandrian edition, at least some of Sappho's poetry was in circulation in the ancient world in other collections. The Cologne Papyrus on which the Tithonus poem is preserved was part of a Hellenistic anthology of poetry.[4]

Today, most of Sappho's poetry is lost. The two major sources of surviving fragments of Sappho are quotations in other ancient works, from a whole poem to as little as a single word, and fragments of papyrus, many of which were discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.[5] Other fragments survive on other materials, including parchment and potsherds.[6] The oldest surviving fragment of Sappho currently known is the Cologne papyrus which contains the Tithonus poem;[7] it dates back to the third century BC.[8]

Poems

Fragment Number	Sources	Meter	lines
Fragment 1	P. Oxy. 2288; D.H. Comp. 23	Sapphic stanza	28
Fragment 2	PSI 1300	Sapphic stanza	17[lower-alpha 1]
Fragment 3	P. Berol. 5006; P. Oxy. 424	Sapphic stanza	18
Fragment 4	P. Berol. 5006	Sapphic stanza	10
Fragment 5	P. Oxy. 7; P. Oxy. 2289; P. GC	Sapphic stanza	20
Fragment 6	P. Oxy. 2289	perhaps Sapphic stanza	15
Fragment 7	P. Oxy. 2289	Sapphic stanza	7
Fragment 8	P. Oxy. 2289		5
Fragment 9	P. Oxy. 2289; P. GC	Sapphic stanza	20
Brothers Poem[lower-alpha 2]	P. Oxy. 2289; P. Sapph. Obbink	Sapphic stanza	24
Fragment 12	P. Oxy. 2289	Sapphic stanza	9
Fragment 15[lower-alpha 3]	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	12
Fragment 16	P. Oxy. 1231; PSI 123; P. GC	Sapphic stanza	20[lower-alpha 4]
Fragment 16A	P. Oxy. 1231; PSI 123; P. GC	Sapphic stanza	12
Fragment 17	PSI 123; P. Oxy. 1231; P. Oxy. 2166(a); P. Oxy. 2289; P. GC	Sapphic stanza	20
Fragment 18	P. Oxy. 1231; P. GC		15
Fragment 18A	P. GC		9
Fragment 19	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	12
Fragment 20	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	24
Fragment 21	P. Oxy. 1231; Apollonius Dyscolus	Sapphic stanza	15
Fragment 22	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	19
Fragment 23	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	14
Fragment 24a	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	8
Fragment 24b	P. Oxy. 2166	Sapphic stanza	5
Fragment 24c	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	9
Fragment 24d	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	7
Fragment 25	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	7
Fragment 26	P. Oxy. 1231, P. Sapph. Obbink	Sapphic stanza	16
Fragment 27	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	13
Fragment 28a	P. Oxy. 1231		4
Fragment 28b	P. Oxy. 1231		5
Fragment 28c	P. Oxy. 1231		5
Fragment 29a	P. Oxy. 1231		4
Fragment 29b	P. Oxy. 1231		5
Fragment 29c	P. Oxy. 1231; P. Oxy. 2166		11
Fragment 29d	P. Oxy. 1231		4
Fragment 29e	P. Oxy. 1231		3
Fragment 29f	P. Oxy. 1231		7
Fragment 29g	P. Oxy. 2081		4
Fragment 29h	P. Oxy. 2166		8
Fragment 29i	P. Oxy. 2166		5
Fragment 30	P. Oxy. 1231	Sapphic stanza	9
Fragment 31	Longinus	Sapphic stanza	17
Fragment 32	Apollonius Dyscolus	Sapphic stanza	2
Fragment 33	Apollonius Dyscolus	Sapphic stanza	2
Fragment 34	Eustathius	Sapphic stanza	5
Fragment 35	Strabo	Sapphic stanza	1
Fragment 36	Etymologicum Genuinum	Sapphic stanza?	1
Fragment 37	Etymologicum Genuinum	Sapphic stanza	3
Fragment 38	Apollonius Dyscolus	Sapphic stanza	1
Fragment 39	Scholiast on Aristophanes Peace	Sapphic stanza	3
Fragment 40	Apollonius Dyscolus	Sapphic stanza	2
Fragment 41	Apollonius Dyscolus	Sapphic stanza	2
Fragment 42	Scholiast on Pindar	Sapphic stanza	2
Fragment 43	P. Oxy. 1232	]-uu-ux, possibly Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	9
Fragment 44	P. Oxy. 1232	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	34[lower-alpha 5]
Fragment 44Aa	P. Fouad. 239	]-uu-uu-ux, possibly Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	12
Fragment 44Ab	P. Fouad. 239	xx-uu-[	10
Fragment 45	Apollonius Dyscolus	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	1
Fragment 46	Herodian	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	2
Fragment 47	Maximus of Tyre	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	2
Fragment 48	Julian	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	2
Fragment 49	Hephaestion; Plutarch	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	2[lower-alpha 6]
Fragment 50	Galen	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	2
Fragment 51	Chrysippus	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion	1
Fragment 52	Herodian	Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion?	1
Fragment 53	Scholiast on Theocritus	Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion	1
Fragment 54	Julius Pollux	Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion	1
Fragment 55	Stobaeus	Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion	4
Fragment 56	Chrysippus	Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion	3
Fragment 57	Athenaeus	ll.1–2 uncertain; l.3 Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion	3
Pre-58 (Oxyrhynchus)	P. Oxy. 1787	Acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion[13]	10
Pre-58 (Cologne)	P. Köln inv.21351+21376	Acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion[14][lower-alpha 7]}	8
Fragment 58	P. Oxy. 1787; P. Köln inv.21351+21376	Acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion	12
Post-58 (Oxyrhynchus)	P. Oxy. 1787	Acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion	4
Fragment 59	P. Oxy. 1787		3
Fragment 60	P. Halle. 3	]-uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	11
Fragment 61	P. Oxy. 1787		2
Fragment 62	P. Oxy. 1787	x-uu--uu-[, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	12
Fragment 63	P. Oxy. 1787	x-uu--uu-[, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	10
Fragment 64a	P. Oxy. 1787		15
Fragment 64b	P. Oxy. 1787		4
Fragment 65	P. Oxy. 1787	x-uu-[, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	11
Fragment 66a	P. Oxy. 1787		3
Fragment 66b	P. Oxy. 1787		4
Fragment 66c	P. Oxy. 1787		3
Fragment 67a	P. Oxy. 1787	x-uu-[, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	8
Fragment 67b	P. Oxy. 1787		7
Fragment 68a	P. Oxy. 1787	]uu--uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	12
Fragment 68b	P. Oxy. 1787		6
Fragment 69	P. Oxy. 1787		3
Fragment 70	P. Oxy. 1787	]--uu-[	14
Fragment 71	P. Oxy. 1787		8
Fragment 72	P. Oxy. 1787	]uu--uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	8
Fragment 73a	P. Oxy. 1787	-]uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	9
Fragment 73b	P. Oxy. 1787	-]uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	3
Fragment 74a	P. Oxy. 1787		6
Fragment 74b	P. Oxy. 1787		3
Fragment 74c	P. Oxy. 1787		4
Fragment 74d	P. Oxy. 1787		3
Fragment 75a	P. Oxy. 1787		8
Fragment 75b	P. Oxy. 1787		5
Fragment 75c	P. Oxy. 1787		5
Fragment 76	P. Oxy. 1787		7
Fragment 77a	P. Oxy. 1787		9
Fragment 77b	P. Oxy. 1787		6
Fragment 77c	P. Oxy. 1787		4
Fragment 78	P. Oxy. 1787		7
Fragment 79	P. Oxy. 1787		6
Fragment 80	P. Oxy. 1787		6
Fragment 81	P. Oxy. 1787; Athenaeus	acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	7
Fragment 82a	Hephaestion	acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	1
Fragment 82b	P. Oxy. 1787	acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	5
Fragment 83	P. Oxy. 1787		7
Fragment 84	P. Oxy. 1787		7
Fragment 85a	P. Oxy. 1787		4
Fragment 85b	P. Oxy. 1787		3
Fragment 86	P. Oxy. 1787	]-uu--uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	8
Fragment 87a	P. Oxy. 1787		9
Fragment 87b	P. Oxy. 1787		4
Fragment 87c	P. Oxy. 1787		2
Fragment 87d	P. Oxy. 2166		10
Fragment 87e	P. Oxy. 2166		4
Fragment 87f	P. Oxy. 2166		8
Fragment 88a	P. Oxy. 2290	-[ ]u--uu-u[-x\|\| x-[ ]--uu-[u-x\|\| -[ ]uu-u-x\|\|\|	28
Fragment 88b	P. Oxy. 2290	-[ ]u--uu-u[-x\|\| x-[ ]--uu-[u-x\|\| -[ ]uu-u-x\|\|\|	10
Fragment 90a	P. Oxy. 2293		47[lower-alpha 8]
Fragment 90b	P. Oxy. 2293		15[lower-alpha 9]
Fragment 90c	P. Oxy. 2293		7
Fragment 90d	P. Oxy. 2293		18
Fragment 90e	P. Oxy. 2293		4
Fragment 91	Hephaestion	acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion	1
Fragment 92	P. Berol. 9722	xx-u[	16
Fragment 93	P. Berol. 9722	]uu-u-	5
Fragment 94	P. Berol. 9722	glyconic \|\| glyconic \|\| glyconic with dactylic expansion\|\|\|	29
Fragment 95	P. Berol. 9722	-u-xx-[ xx-uu-[ xx-uu-u[ (possibly the same as fr.96)	16
Fragment 96	P. Berol. 9722	creticus; 3x glyconics; baccheus\|\|\|	36
Fragment 97	P. Berol. 9722	uncertain	27[lower-alpha 10]
Fragment 98a	Pap. Haun. 301	glyconic\|\|glyconic\|\|creticus glyconic\|\|\|	12
Fragment 98b	Pap. Mediol. 32	glyconic\|\|glyconic\|\|creticus glyconic\|\|\|	9
Fragment 100	Pollux	uncertain	1
Fragment 101	Athenaeus	perhaps: glyconic\|\|glyconic\|\|glyconic with dactylic expansion\|\|\|	4
Fragment 101A	Demetrius	uncertain; perhaps glyconic\|\|hipponactean\|\|	4
Fragment 102	Hephaestion	iambus glyconic bacchius	2
Fragment 103	P. Oxy. 2294		10
Fragment 103Aa	P. Cair. Mediol. 7		9
Fragment 103Ab	P. Cair. Mediol. 7		4
Fragment 103B	P. Oxy. 2308	]--uu--[	5
Fragment 103Ca	P. Oxy. 2357		8
Fragment 103Cb	P. Oxy. 2357		6
Fragment 104a	Demetrius	l.1: 6 dactyls catalectic, l.2 iamb\|pherecratean with 2x dactylic expansion	2
Fragment 104b	Himerius	uncertain	1
Fragment 105a	Syrianus on Hermogenes	6 dactyls catalectic	3
Fragment 105b	Demetrius	6 dactyls catalectic	2
Fragment 106	Demetrius	6 dactyls catalectic	1
Fragment 107	Apollonius Dyscolus	uncertain	1
Fragment 108	Himerius		1
Fragment 109	Homeric Parsings		1
Fragment 110	Hephaestion	pherecratean with dactylic expansion	3
Fragment 111	Hephaestion	uncertain, perhaps pherecratean\|\|iamb\|\|acephalous pherecratean with dactylic expansion\|\|iamb\|\|\|	8
Fragment 112	Hephaestion	choriambus bacchius choriambus bacchius\|\|	5
Fragment 113	Dionysius of Halicarnassus	3x ionics?	2
Fragment 114	Demetrius	l.1 3 choriambus bacchius; l.2 uncertain	2
Fragment 115	Hephaestion	pherecratean with 2x dactylic expansion	2
Fragment 116	Servius	uncertain	1
Fragment 117	Hephaestion	3 iambs catalectic?	1
Fragment 117A	Hesychius		1
Fragment 117Ba	Marius Plotius Sacerdos		1
Fragment 117Bb	Marius Plotius Sacerdos		1
Fragment 118	Hermogenes	uncertain	2
Fragment 119	Scholiast on Aristophanes Plutus	uncertain	1
Fragment 120	Etymologicum Magnum	glyconic with choriambic expansion	2
Fragment 121	Stobaeus	uncertain	2
Fragment 122	Athenaeus	uncertain	1
Fragment 123	Ammonius	creticus hipponactean?	1
Fragment 124	Hephaestion	--uu-uu-(x-u-u--)	1
Fragment 125	Scholiast on Aristophanes' Thesmophoriasuzae	uncertain	1
Fragment 126	Etymologicum Genuinum	uncertain	1
Fragment 127	Hephaestion	ithyphallicus\|ithyphallicus\|\|	1
Fragment 128	Hephaestion	3cho ba	1
Fragment 129a	Apollonius Dyscolus	uncertain	1
Fragment 129b	Apollonius Dyscolus	uncertain	1
Fragment 130	Hephaestion	gl^d	4
Fragment 132	Hephaestion	uncertain	3
Fragment 133	Hephaestion	ia 2io anacl	2
Fragment 134	Hephaestion	3 io anacl	1
Fragment 135	Hephaestion	3 io	1
Fragment 136	Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra	pher^2d	1
Fragment 137	Aristotle	Alcaic	7
Fragment 138	Athenaeus	ia _^gl or ia _^gl ia	2
Fragment 139	Philo		2
Fragment 140	Hephaestion	pher^2c	2
Fragment 141	Athenaeus	ll.1 and 4 _^pher? ll.2-3 and 5-6 uncertain	6
Fragment 142	Athenaeus	6 da_^ (pher^3d)	1
Fragment 143	Athenaeus	6 da_^ (pher^3d)	1
Fragment 144	Herodian	gl^xd	2
Fragment 145	Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius		1
Fragment 146	Tryphon	pher^d	1
Fragment 147	Dio Chysostom	uncertain	1
Fragment 148	Scholiast on Pindar	uncertain	2
Fragment 149	Apollonius Dyscolus	pher^xd?	1
Fragment 150	Maximus of Tyre	gl^2c?	2
Fragment 151	Etymologicum Genuinum	pher^c	1
Fragment 152	Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius	gl^xd?	2
Fragment 153	Atilius Fortunatianus	uncertain	1
Fragment 154	Hephaestion	_^gl ba\|\|	2
Fragment 155	Maximus of Tyre	cr\| _^hipp^d or cr _^gl	1
Fragment 156	Demetrius	possibly gl^2d	2
Fragment 157	Etymologicum Genuinum	Sapphics?	1
Fragment 158	Plutarch	2 ad?	2
Fragment 159	Maximus of Tyre	uncertain	1
Fragment 160	Athenaeus	Sapphics?	2
Fragment 161	P. Bouriant		1
Fragment 162	Choeroboscus		1
Fragment 163	Julian		1
Fragment 164	Apollonius Dyscolus		1
Fragment 165	Apollonius Dyscolus		1
Fragment 166	Athenaeus	gl^c	2
Fragment 167	Athenaeus	gl^xd	1
Fragment 168	Marius Plotinus Sacerdos	Sapphics?	1
Fragment 168A	Etymologicum Genuinum	gl?	1
Fragment 168B	Hephaestion	_^hipp\|\|	4
Fragment 168C	Demetrius	Alcaics?	1

Glosses

These fragments are isolated words quoted by other ancient authors, arranged alphabetically.

Fragment Number	Sources
Fragment 169	Scholiast on the Iliad
Fragment 169A	Hesychius, Lexicon
Fragment 170	Strabo, Geography
Fragment 171	Photius, Lexicon
Fragment 172	Maximus of Tyre, Orations
Fragment 173	Choeroboscus on Theodosius
Fragment 174	Orion, Lexicon
Fragment 175	Apollonius Dyscolus, Adverbs
Fragment 176	Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae
Fragment 177	Julius Pollux
Fragment 179	Phrynichus
Fragment 180	Hesychius
Fragment 181	Scholiast on Dionysius of Thrace
Fragment 182	Scholiast on the Iliad
Fragment 183	Porphyry on the Iliad
Fragment 184	Choeroboscus on Theodosius
Fragment 185	Philostratus, Images
Fragment 186	John of Alexandria
Fragment 187	Homeric Parsings
Fragment 188	Maximus of Tyre
Fragment 189	Phrynichus
Fragment 190	Scholiast on the Iliad
Fragment 191	Julius Pollux
Fragment 192	Julius Pollux

Testimonia

Fragment Number	Sources
Fragment 194	Himerius
Fragment 194A	Michaelis Italici
Fragment 195	Demetrius
Fragment 196	Aristides
Fragment 197	Libanius
Fragment 198a	Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius
Fragment 198b	Scholiast on Theocritus
Fragment 198c	Pausanius
Fragment 199	Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius
Fragment 200	Scholiast on Hesiod
Fragment 201	Aristotle
Fragment 203a	Athenaeus
Fragment 203b	Eustachius
Fragment 203c	Scholiast on Iliad
Fragment 204a	Scholiast on Pindar
Fragment 204b	Pausanias
Fragment 205	Aulius Gellius
Fragment 206	Servius on Virgil
Fragment 207	Servius on Virgil
Fragment 208	Himerius
Fragment 209	Eustachius
Fragment 210	Scholiast on Theocritus
Fragment 211a	Pseudo-Paelephatus
Fragment 211b	Pliny
Fragment 211c	Aelian
Fragment 212	Comes Natalis
Fragment 213	P. Oxy. 2292
Fragment 213Aa	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Ab	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Ac	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Ad	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Ae	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Af	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Ag	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Ah	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Ai	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213Ak	P. Oxy. 2506
Fragment 213B	PSI (Ommaggio all' XI congresso internationale di papirologia, Florence 1965, 16s.)
Fragment 214	Pausanias
Fragment 215	Demetrius
Fragment 216	Philostratus
Fragment 217	Philostratus
Fragment 218	Himerius
Fragment 219	Maximus of Tyre
Fragment 220	Himerius
Fragment 221	Himerius
Fragment 222	Menander
Fragment 223	Philostratus
Fragment 224	Horace
Fragment 225	Horace
Fragment 226	Scholiast on metre of Pindar
Fragment 227	Hephaestion
Fragment 228	Hephaestion
Fragment 229	Hephaestion
Fragment 230	Caesius Bassus
Fragment 231	Atilius Fortunatianus
Fragment 232	Hephaestion
Fragment 233	Photius
Fragment 234	Servius on Virgil
Fragment 235	Suda
Fragment 236	Hephaestion
Fragment 237	Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Fragment 238	Atilius Fortunatianus
Fragment 239	Marius Victorinus
Fragment 240	Scholiast on Hephaestion
Fragment 242	Marius Victorinus
Fragment 243	Servius
Fragment 244	Seneca
Fragment 245	Strabo
Fragment 246	Aristoxenus
Fragment 247	Menaechmus
Fragment 248	Suda
Fragment 249	Eusebius
Fragment 250	Athenaeus
Fragment 251	Parian marble
Fragment 252	P. Oxy. 1800
Fragment 253	Suda
Fragment 254a	Herodotus
Fragment 254b	Strabo
Fragment 254c	Athenaeus
Fragment 254d	Photius
Fragment 254e	Suda
Fragment 254f	Appian
Fragment 254g	Tzetzes
Fragment 255	Scholiast on Plato
Fragment 256	Aelian
Fragment 257	Suda
Fragment 258	Maximus of Tyre
Fragment 259	Scholiast on Lucian
Fragment 260a	Horace
Fragment 260b	Porphyrio
Fragment 260c	Dionysius Latinus
Fragment 261	Ovid
Fragment 262	Tatian
Fragment 263	Heroides 15
Fragment 264	Strabo

Uncertain authorship

Fragments which may be by either Sappho or Alcaeus of Mytilene.

Fragment Number	Sources	Lines
Fragment 1	Scholiast to Odyssey	1
Fragment 2	Etymologicum Genuinum	1
Fragment 3	Apollonius Dyscolus	1
Fragment 4	Homeric Parsings	1
Fragment 5a	Herodian	1
Fragment 5b	Herodian	1
Fragment 5c	Herodian	1
Fragment 6	Anonymous grammarian	1
Fragment 10	Herodian	2
Fragment 11	Herodian	1
Fragment 12	Homeric Parsings	1
Fragment 14	Homeric Parsings	1
Fragment 15a	Zenobius	1
Fragment 15b	Scholiast on Aelius Aristides	1
Fragment 16	Hephaestion	3
Fragment 18	Anonymous	2
Fragment 19	Apollonius Dyscolus	1
Fragment 20	Zonaras	1
Fragment 21	Hephaestion	2
Fragment 22	Hephaestion	1
Fragment 23	Philodemus	1
Fragment 25	Scholiast on Theocritus	1
Fragment 25A	Etymologicum Genuinum	1
Fragment 25B	Etymologicum Magnum	1
Fragment 25C	Eustathius	2
Fragment 27	P.Vind. 29777	3
Fragment 28	P. Oxy. 2299	8
Fragment 29	P. Oxy. 2299	2
Fragment 30	P. Oxy. 2299	8
Fragment 31a	P. Oxy. 2299	15
Fragment 31b	P. Oxy. 2299	4
Fragment 32	P. Oxy. 2299	11
Fragment 33	P. Oxy. 2299	3
Fragment 34a	P. Oxy. 2299	17
Fragment 34b	P. Oxy. 2299	5
Fragment 35	P. Oxy. 2299	8
Fragment 36a	P. Oxy. 2299	6
Fragment 36b	P. Oxy. 2299	4
Fragment 37	P. Oxy. 2299	13
Fragment 38	P. Oxy. 2299	3
Fragment 39	P. Oxy. 2299	3
Fragment 40	P. Oxy. 2299	4
Fragment 41	P. Oxy. 2299	7
Fragment 42	P. Oxy. 2378	16

Notes

Voigt numbers the lines 1a, followed by 1–16;[9] line 1a is not in the Lesbian dialect and may not have been part of the original poem.[10]
Follows fragment 9 in Alexandrian edition, called fr.9a by e.g. West 2014, overlaps with fr.11 LP (omitted from Voigt).
Voigt has 15a and 15b
Voigt gives 32 lines; P. GC shows that the final 12 lines of Voigt are a separate poem (16A)
Voight numbers the lines up to 34, including l.3a, which is entirely lost[11]
Though often presented as a single fragment, the lines come from two separate sources, and Rayor & Lardinois 2014 follow Parker 2006 in taking the fragments as separate.[12]
West calls the base of the metre Hagesichoreans rather than Acephalous Hipponacteans;[15] Acephalous Hipponacteans is the standard terminology, however[3]
Voigt divides 90a into Col. II, ll.1–27, and Col. III, ll.11–30
Voigt numbers from l.5
ll.1–12 and 19–23 are illegible

References

Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 7.
Yatromanolakis 1999, p. 181.
Lidov 2011b.
Clayman 2011.
Rayor & Lardinois 2014, pp. 7–8.
Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 8.
West 2005, p. 1.
Obbink 2011.
Voigt 1971, p. 33.
McEvilley 1972, p. 324.
Voigt 1971, p. 66.
Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 114.
Lidov 2011a.
Skinner 2011.
Skinner 2011, note 2.

Works cited

Clayman, Dee (2011). "The New Sappho in a Hellenistic Poetry Book". Classics@. 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Lidov, Joel (2011b). "Acceptance or Assertion: Sappho's New Poem in its Books". Classics@. 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Lidov, Joel (2011b). "The Meter and Metrical Style of the New Poem". Classics@. 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
McEvilly, Thomas (1971). "Sappho, Fragment 94". Phoenix. 25 (1).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Obbink, Dirk (2011). "Sappho Fragments 58–59: Text, Apparatus Criticus, and Translation". Classics@. 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Rayor, Diane; Lardinois, André (2014). Sappho: A New Edition of the Complete Works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Skinner, Marylin B. (2011). "Introduction". Classics@. 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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[11] Voigt numbers the lines 1a, followed by 1–16;[9] line 1a is not in the Lesbian dialect and may not have been part of the original poem.[10]

[12] Follows fragment 9 in Alexandrian edition, called fr.9a by e.g. West 2014, overlaps with fr.11 LP (omitted from Voigt).

[13] Voigt has 15a and 15b

[14] Voigt gives 32 lines; P. GC shows that the final 12 lines of Voigt are a separate poem (16A)

[16] Voight numbers the lines up to 34, including l.3a, which is entirely lost[11]

[18] Though often presented as a single fragment, the lines come from two separate sources, and Rayor & Lardinois 2014 follow Parker 2006 in taking the fragments as separate.[12]

[22] West calls the base of the metre Hagesichoreans rather than Acephalous Hipponacteans;[15] Acephalous Hipponacteans is the standard terminology, however[3]

[23] Voigt divides 90a into Col. II, ll.1–27, and Col. III, ll.11–30

[24] Voigt numbers from l.5

[25] .1–12 and 19–23 are illegible

[FOOTNOTERayorLardinois20147-1] Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 7.

[FOOTNOTEYatromanolakis1999181-2] Yatromanolakis 1999, p. 181.

[FOOTNOTELidov2011b-3] Lidov 2011b.

[FOOTNOTEClayman2011-4] Clayman 2011.

[FOOTNOTERayorLardinois20147–8-5] Rayor & Lardinois 2014, pp. 7–8.

[FOOTNOTERayorLardinois20148-6] Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 8.

[FOOTNOTEWest20051-7] West 2005, p. 1.

[FOOTNOTEObbink2011-8] Obbink 2011.

[FOOTNOTEVoigt197133-9] Voigt 1971, p. 33.

[FOOTNOTEMcEvilley1972324-10] McEvilley 1972, p. 324.

[FOOTNOTEVoigt197166-15] Voigt 1971, p. 66.

[FOOTNOTERayorLardinois2014114-17] Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 114.

[FOOTNOTELidov2011a-19] Lidov 2011a.

[FOOTNOTESkinner2011-20] Skinner 2011.

[FOOTNOTESkinner2011note_2-21] Skinner 2011, note 2.

Sappho
Fragments	Ode to Aphrodite (1) 2 16 31 44 Tithonus poem (58) 94 Midnight poem (168B) Brothers Poem
Papyri	Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1231
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