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Plate 1. ALMA TADEMA’S SAPPHO
In the Walters’ Art Gallery, Baltimore
SAPPHO AND HER INFLUENCE
BY DAVID M. ROBINSON, Ph.D., LL.D.
W. H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology and Epigraphy and Lecturer on Greek Literature The Johns Hopkins University
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To THE MEMORY OF BASIL LANNEAU GILDERSLEEVE MASTER, COLLEAGUE, AND FRIEND AND TO MY FORMER TEACHERS EDWARD CAPPS PAUL SHOREY ULRICH von WILAMOWITZ-MOELLENDORFF
δῶρον ’αντὶ μαγάλου σμικρόν
A trifling gift in return for much.
Ἑτερος ἐξ ἑτέρου σοφὸς τό τε πάλαι τό τε νῦν. οὐδὲ γὰρ ῥᾶστον ἀρρήτων ἐπέων πύλας ἐξευρεῖν.
Poet is heir to poet, now as of yore; for in sooth ’tis no light task to find the gates of virgin song.
Jebb, Bacchylides, p. 413, frag. 4
Immortal Sappho, maid divine, Thou sharest with the heavenly nine All honor. Shout through all the town That on her head we place a crown. Hasten with the chaplet green, Greet her one and all as queen; The Lesbian, a tenth muse we name, And prophesy that her bright fame Shall spread o’er all the world. This title till the stars do fall, Nations yet unborn shall call And glorify her name. (LUCY MILBURN)