User:Caeciliusinhorto/Sappho bibliography

Enormous quantities have been written about Sappho; this is by no means a comprehensive bibliography. As it is primarily intended to help editors who want to improve coverage of Sappho on Wikipedia, I have tended towards the works which will be most useful and accessible to the Wikipedia editor – in particular the editor of en.wikipedia. To this end, I have tried to largely include works which are widely available, ideally for free online through archive.org or the Wikipedia Library programme. I have also tried to include English-language works as much as possible; where a work was originally published in a different language and later translated into English I have given priority to the translation rather than the original. In some cases (e.g. Voigt 1971) a work is so crucial to Sappho scholarship that I have included it despite the fact that they are neither easily available, in English, or likely to be frequently cited directly on Wikipedia.

Further bibliography is available on Oxford Bibliographies Online, "Sappho", at Rutgers University's Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Martin Cuypers' Hellenistic Bibliography, and Diotima's Sappho bibliography. Many of the works included in this list also contain substantial bibliographies, particularly Neri 2021 with over 70 pages of bibliographic material from the 16th century up to the date of publication.

Editions and translations edit

Until 2021 the standard scholarly edition of Sappho was Voigt 1971, though it is rare and expensive. The newest scholarly edition, Neri 2021 (with Italian translation and commentary), is seeing increasing scholarly use though it has not yet fully supplanted Voigt. Neri's and Voigt's editions are both organised to follow the order of fragments in Lobel & Page 1955 (reprinted with addenda as Lobel & Page 1963, which was reissued in 1997). Minor fragments discovered up until 1974 are included in Lobel & Page 1974. A new edition by Patrick Finglass is forthcoming.

Greek texts with facing English translations are available in Campbell 1989 and Carson 2002, both of which are widely available; Campbell also contains substantial testimonia, the poetry of Alcaeus, and the incerti auctoris. Both predate the 2004 and 2014 discoveries, and though a recent Folio Society edition of Carson has been produced, it has not been updated to include the new discoveries. Four substantially complete English translations do include the 2014 discoveries: Rayor & Lardinois 2014, Lombardo 2016, Balmer 2018, and Powell 2019. Of these, Rayor & Lardinois includes slightly more of Sappho's poetry, and more comprehensive notes. A revised and expanded edition based on Neri 2021's text was published as Rayor & Lardinois 2023.

An online Digital Sappho gives the Greek text of Voigt, and the Brothers poem; it does not contain full apparatus or translations, and it has not updated e.g. its reading of fr.5 based on the 2014 discoveries, but it is usually sufficient for quick reference.

Of historical interest are editions by Bergk, Diehl, Edmonds (notorious for its speculative restorations), and Lobel. Notable historic translations include Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman, and Mary Barnard's Sappho: A New Translation.

  • Balmer, Josephine (2018). Sappho: Poems & Fragments (New Expanded ed.). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books.
  • Bergk, Theodor (1882). Poetae Lyrici Graeci. Vol. III (4th ed.). pp. 82–140.
  • Campbell, David A. (1989). Greek Lyric I: Sappho and Alcaeus. Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press.
  • Carson, Anne (2002). If Not, Winter. Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Lobel, Edgar; Page, Denys (1955). Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta (in Latin). Oxford.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Lobel, Edgar; Page, Denys L., eds. (1963). Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta (in Latin). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Lobel, Edgar; Page, Denys (1974). Supplementum Lyricis Graecis: poetarum lyricorum Graecorum fragmenta quae recens innotuerant (in Latin). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Lombardo, Stanley (2016). Sappho: Complete Poems and Fragments. Hackett. ISBN 978-1624664670.
  • Neri, Camillo, ed. (2021). Saffo: Testimonianze e Frammenti (in Italian). de Gruyter.
  • Powell, Jim (2019). The Poetry of Sappho: An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Rayor, Diane; Lardinois, André (2014). Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rayor, Diane; Lardinois, André (2023). Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108926973.
  • Tedeschi, Gennaro (2015). Saffo: Frammenta.
  • Voigt, Eva-Maria, ed. (1971). Sappho et Alcaeus: Fragmenta (in Latin). Amsterdam: Polak & Van Gennep.
  • "Digital Sappho".

General edit

Finglass & Kelly 2021 gives a recent survey of Sappho's life, poetry, transmission, and reception, with extensive suggestions for further reading. Briefer and more accessible is duBois 2015.

Poetry edit

  • Bierl, Anton; Lardinois, André, eds. (2016). The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4.
  • Budelmann, Felix (2019). Greek Lyric: A Selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Burris, Simon; Fish, Jeffrey; Obbink, Dirk (2014). "New Fragments of Book 1 of Sappho". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 189. JSTOR 23850356.
  • Hutchinson, G. O. (2001). Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924017-5.
  • MacLachlan, Bonnie C. (1997). "Personal poetry: Alcaeus, Sappho, Ibycus, Anacreon, Corinna". In Gerber, Douglas E. (ed.). A companion to the Greek lyric poets. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004217614.
  • Page, Denys (1955). Sappho and Alcaeus: An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Lesbian Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Tsantsanoglou, Kyriakos (2019). Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus. de Gruyter.
  • West, Martin L. (2014). "Nine Poems of Sappho". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 191: 1–12. JSTOR 43909573.
  • Winkler, John J. (1990). "Double Conciousness in Sappho's Lyrics". The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415901239.

Ode to Aphrodite (1) edit

16 edit

  • "New Poem of Sappho". The Times. 4 May 1914.
  • Barkhuizen, J. H.; Els, G. H. (1983). "On Sappho, Fr. 16 (L.P.)". Acta Classica. 26.
  • Brown, Christopher (1989). "Anactoria and the Χαρίτων ἀμαρύγματα: Sappho fr. 16, 18 Voigt". Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica. 32 (2). doi:10.2307/20546993. JSTOR 20546993.
  • Most, G. W. (1981). "Sappho Fr. 16.6–7 L–P". The Classical Quarterly. 31 (1): 11–17. doi:10.1017/S0009838800021030.
  • Dodson-Robinson, Eric (2010). "Helen's "Judgment of Paris" and Greek Marriage Ritual in Sappho 16". Arethusa. 43 (1).
  • Koniaris, George (1967). "On Sappho, Fr. 16 (L. P.)". Hermes. 95 (3).
  • Zellner, Harold (2007). "Sappho's Alleged Proof of Aesthetic Relativity". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. 47.

31 edit

  • D'Angour, Armand (2013). "Love's Battlefield: Rethinking Sappho fr. 31". In Sanders, Ed; Thumiger, Chiara; Carey, Christopher; Lowe, Nick (eds.). Erôs in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Clark, Christina (2001). "The Body of Desire: Nonverbal Communication in Sappho 31 V: dis manibus Barbara Hughes Fowler". Syllecta Classica. 12: 1–32. doi:10.1353/syl.2001.0005. S2CID 144624502.
  • Devereux, George (1970). "The Nature of Sappho's Seizure in Fr. 31 LP as Evidence of Her Inversion". The Classical Quarterly. 20 (1): 17–31. doi:10.1017/S0009838800044542. PMID 11620360.
  • Fowler, Robert L. (1987). "Sappho fr. 31. 9". Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. 28 (4): 433–439 – via library.duke.edu.
  • McEvilley, Thomas (1978). "Sappho, Fragment Thirty One: The Face Behind the Mask". Phoenix. 32 (1). doi:10.2307/1087945. JSTOR 1087945.
  • Race, William H. (1983). ""That Man" in Sappho fr. 31 L-P". Classical Antiquity. 2 (1). doi:10.2307/25010785. JSTOR 25010785.
  • Sinos, Dale S. (1982). "Sappho, fr. 31 LP: Structure and Context". Aevum. 56 (1).
  • Tsargarakis, Odysseus (1979). "Some Neglected Aspects of Love in Sappho's Fr. 31 LP". Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. 122 (2).

Tithonos Poem (58) edit

  • Bierl, Anton (2016). "Visualizing the Cologne Sappho: Mental Imagery through Chorality, the Sun, and Orpheus". In Cazzatto, V.; Lardinois, A. P. M. H. (eds.). The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual. Leiden: Brill.
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  • duBois, Page (2011). "Sappho, Tithonos, and the Ruins of the Body". European Review of History—Revue europeénne d'histoire. 18 (5–6).
  • Rawles, Richard (2006). "Notes on the Interpretation of the 'New Sappho'". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 157.
  • Skinner, Marilyn B. (2007). "What's New In Sappho Studies: The Cologne Papyri" (PDF). Amphora. 6 (2).
  • West, Martin. L. (2005). "The New Sappho". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 151. JSTOR 20191962.
  • Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios (2008). "P. Colon. inv. 21351+21376 and P. Oxy. 1787 fr. 1: Music, Cultural Politics, and Hellenistic Anthologies". Ελληνικα. 58 (2).

94 edit

  • Burnett, Anne (1979). "Desire and Memory (Sappho Frag. 94)". Classical Philology. 74 (1): 16–27. doi:10.1086/366465. S2CID 162064287.
  • Larson, Stephanie (2010). "τεθνακην δ' αδολως θελω: Reading Sappho's "Confession" (fr.94) through Penelope". Mnemosyne. 63 (2). doi:10.1163/156852510x456129.
  • McEvilly, Thomas (1971). "Sappho, Fragment 94". Phoenix. 25 (1).
  • Rauk, John (1989). "Erinna's Distaff and Sappho Fr.94". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. 30 (1).
  • Robbins, Emmet (1990). "Who's Dying in Sappho Fr. 94?". Phoenix. 44 (2). doi:10.2307/1088325.

Midnight Poem (168B) edit

  • Clay, Diskin (1970). "Fragmentum Adespotum 976". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 101: 119–129. doi:10.2307/2936043. JSTOR 2936043.
  • Clay, Diskin (2011). "Sappho, Selanna, and the Poetry of the Night". Giornale Italiano di Filologia. 2 (1–2).
  • Cuntz, Manfred; Gurdemir, Levent; George, Martin (2016). "Seasonal Dating of Sappho's 'Midnight Poem' Revisited". Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. 19 (1).
  • Mebius, I. S.; Herschberg, J. E. (1990). "ΔΕΔΥΚΕ ΜΕΝ Α ΣΕΛΑΝΝΑ". Mnemosyne. 43 (1).
  • Page, Denys (1958). "ΔΕΔΥΚΕ ΜΕΝ Α ΣΕΛΑΝΝΑ". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 78.
  • Reiner, Paula; Kovacs, David (1993). "ΔΕΔΥΚΕ ΜΕΝ Α ΣΕΛΑΝΝΑ: The Pleiades in Mid-Heaven (PMG Frag.Adesp. 976 = Sappho Fr. 168 B Voigt)". Mnemosyne. 46 (2).

Brothers Poem edit

Much of Bierl & Lardinos 2016 focuses on the Brothers Poem. Obbink 2014 is the editio princeps.

Provenance issues edit

From the initial announcement of the discovery of a new Sappho poem in 2014, there has been significant discussion surrounding the provenance of the new papyri. Along with the Brothers Poem papyrus (P. Sapph. Obbink), this also relates to the Green Collection papyri (P. GC inv. 105 frr. 1-4) whose discoveries were announced at the same time. As of 2022, P. Sapph. Obbink's current location and ownership remain unknown; the Green Collection papyri have been returned to Egypt (Sampson 2022).

Other fragments edit

  • "A New Fragment of Sappho". The Times. 16 July 1937.
  • McEvilley, Thomas (1972). "Sappho, Fragment Two". Phoenix. 26 (4): 323–333. doi:10.2307/1087592. JSTOR 1087592.
  • Sampson, C. M. (2016). A new reconstruction of Sappho 44 (P. Oxy. x 1232+ P. Oxy. xvii 2076). Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology.
  • Schrenk, Lawrence P. (1994). "Sappho Frag. 44 and the 'Iliad'". Hermes. 122 (2).
  • Spelman, Henry (2016). "Trojan Myth and Literary History". Mnemosyne.
  • Turyn, Alexander (1942). "The Sapphic Ostracon". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 73: 308–318. doi:10.2307/283553. JSTOR 283553.

Transmission edit

Social context & sexuality edit

  • Hallett, Judith P. (1979). "Sappho and her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality". Signs. 4 (3): 447–464. doi:10.1086/493630. S2CID 143119907.
  • Klinck, Anne L. (2005). "Sleeping in the Bosom of a Tender Companion". Journal of Homosexuality. 49 (3–4): 193–208. doi:10.1300/j082v49n03_07. PMID 16338894. S2CID 35046856.
  • Klinck, Anne L. (2008). "Sappho's Company of Friends". Hermes. 136. JSTOR 40379149.
  • Lardinois, André (1994). "Subject and Circumstance in Sappho's Poetry". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 124: 57–84. doi:10.2307/284286. JSTOR 284286.
  • Parker, Holt (1993). "Sappho Schoolmistress". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 123. JSTOR 284334.
  • Tsagarakis, Odysseus (1986). "Broken Hearts and the Social Circumstances in Sappho's Poetry". Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. 129 (1).

Receptions edit

Since the publication of DeJean 1989, this has become a very active area of Sappho scholarship; Finglass & Kelly 2021 devotes a substantial fraction of the volume to this topic. Bagordo 2012 and Schlesier 2015 both survey Sappho's reception from antiquity to the present. Whiteman 2014 surveys translations of Sappho in English from Bliss Carman to Daley & Dubois' 2011 translation.

  • Bagordo, Andreas (2012). "Sappho". Brill's New Pauly Supplements I. Vol. 5: The Reception of Classical Literature.
  • DeJean, Joan (1989). Fictions of Sappho.
  • Gosetti-Murrayjohn, Angela (2006). "Sappho as the Tenth Muse in Hellenistic Epigram". Arethusa. 39 (1): 21–45. doi:10.1353/are.2006.0003. S2CID 161681219.
  • Greene, Ellen, ed. (1998). Re-reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission. University of California Press.
  • Gubar, Susan (1984). "Sapphistries". Signs. 10 (1): 43–62. doi:10.1086/494113. S2CID 225088703.
  • Most, Glenn W. (1995). "Reflecting Sappho". Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 40: 15–38. doi:10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb00462.x.
  • Peterson, Linda H. (1994). "Sappho and the Making of Tennysonian Lyric". ELH. 61 (1): 121–137. doi:10.1353/elh.1994.0010. S2CID 162385092.
  • Prins, Yopie (1999). Victorian Sappho. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • Reynolds, Margaret (2001). The Sappho Companion. London: Vintage.
  • Schlesier, Renate (2015). "Sappho". Brill's New Pauly Supplements II. Vol. 7: Figures of Antiquity and Their Reception in Art, Literature, and Music. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  • Thorsen, Thea S.; Harrison, Stephen, eds. (2019). Roman Receptions of Sappho. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-882943-0.
  • Whiteman, Bruce (2014). "Sappho; or, On Loss". The Hudson Review.
  • Williamson, Margaret (2009). "Sappho and Pindar in the 19th and 20th centuries". In Budelmann, Felix (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios. Sappho in the Making: The Early Receptions.

Unsorted edit

Book chapters edit

  • Lardinois, André (2008). "Someone, I Say, Will Remember Us: Oral Memory in Sappho's Poetry". In Mackay, Anne (ed.). Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman World. Leiden: Brill.
  • Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios (2009). "Alcaeus and Sappho". In Budelmann, Felix (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139002479.

Journal articles edit