Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes Edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos Associate Editors Stavros Frangoulidis · Fausto Montana · Lara Pagani Serena Perrone · Evina Sistakou · Christos Tsagalis Scientific Committee Alberto Bernabé · Margarethe Billerbeck Claude Calame · Jonas Grethlein · Philip R. Hardie Stephen J. Harrison · Richard Hunter · Christina Kraus Giuseppe Mastromarco · Gregory Nagy Theodore D. Papanghelis · Giusto Picone Tim Whitmarsh · Bernhard Zimmermann Volume 79 Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus ISBN 978-3-11-062983-5 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-063039-8 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-063086-2 ISSN 1868-4785 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019947137 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Editorial Office: Alessia Ferreccio and Katerina Zianna Logo: Christopher Schneider, Laufen Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com Preface The recent discovery and publication of large papyri containing poems by Sap- pho, sparked off a large-scale interest, which gave birth to an extensive produc- tion of scholarly treatises on the poetry of the archaic poets of Lesbos. To this wider dialogue I have also contributed with a number of articles, fourteen of which are included in the present volume. Some of them have already been pub- lished in classical journals, others not. I have to admit that, in spite of their appealing object, my articles do not re- frain from my usual positivistic policy. It has been my conscious effort to avoid wide-ranging ventures and to restrict myself to concrete observations which help in constructing a stable text. When this necessary stability is established, the field is then open to broader interpretations. Especially in the case of papyri, the blind acceptance of the editio princeps, a common practice in our scholarship, proves hazardous. I attempted, at the expense of time and leisure, never to start a papy- rus investigation taking the original reading for granted. On the other hand, I re- alize that, by discussing in detail exiguous observations such as the shape of par- ticular letters, I often end up in making the approach to the articles a laborious and boring enterprise. I only hope to be forgiven by the reader. Yet, I know that too often a slight trace that establishes even a single letter, may unexpectedly lead to a great profit in the sense of the text examined. Some articles appear moving in much the same spheres: the first three around the old age of Sappho in connection with the topic of the poetic survival, the last three around the worship of the so-called ‘Lesbian Triad’. The articles in each group are products of a research sequence in progress with successively pro- posed solutions, and so both some contradictions and some repetitions were in- evitable. No doubt, it might be possible for two or three articles to be merged in one, at the cost, however, of the fascination of continuous creation. Another deficiency is related to the subjective circumstances in composing some of the articles. Age and the accompanying health conditions may have oc- casionally impeded me to peruse and examine at length the relevant bibliog- raphy. In addition, the economic environment, in a time of financial collapse of my country, brought about a sudden suspension of every acquisition whether of books or periodicals in our libraries, even of access to the scholarly digital librar- ies. It was thanks to my younger colleagues, who resorted to inventive techniques for gaining access to alternative sources, that I managed to somehow replace these deficiencies. I close the account of my shortcomings with a natural grievance. The latest boom in Sapphic and Alcaic research made its appearance during my advanced https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110630398-202 VI  Preface years and frail health. So, I have been unable to confirm some of my findings with a visit to Lesbos and was forced to depend on indirect sources for the contentious spots I am describing. Still greater is, however, my complaint for not being able to convince younger scholars to take on the task. I only hope that, whenever the necessary investigation will be carried out, my proposals won’t be recorded as mere illusions. The list of acknowledgments is short. Apart from the persons gratefully men- tioned in each article, my colleagues Gregory Sifakis and Michalis Tiverios offered me unstintingly their friendly help. Jürgen Hammerstaedt’s deft criticism was of great assistance for several articles. Sotiris Tselikas, a consummate but low-pro- file scholar, was a steadfast cooperator who saved me from numerous blunders. Antonios Rengakos not only proposed the publication of the book in the Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes of De Gruyter GmbH, but was also a constant and tenacious source of encouragement. Thessaloniki, May 2019 Contents Preface  V List of Figures  IX  Sappho Illustrated  1  Sappho on her Funeral Day: P.Colon. 21351.1–8  28  Kleïs as Promoter of Sappho’s Poetry (Fr.  V.)  38  Sappho’s (?) Orpheus Song  42  P. Sapph. Obbink: the ‘Kypris Poem’  72  Sappho’s Epithalamians  86  Sappho Tithonus Poem  114  Sappho 1.18–19 V.  118  The Banquet of the Gods and the Picnic of the Girls  121  The Danaans in Lesbos  147 11 Sappho 27 V., Alcaeus 308 Lib., and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes  162  Alcaeus on the Lesbian Triad Festival  169  The Location of the Lesbian Triad Temenos  192  Who was Onymacles the Athenian?  204 Bibliography  213 List of Figures Ch. 1, Fig. 1: National Museum of Athens hydria-calpis inv. no. 1260  1 Ch. 1, Fig. 2: Drawing of the above vase-painting by Jules Chaplain  2 Ch. 1, Fig. 3: Detail of the above showing the written roll in Sappho’s hands  9 Ch. 7, Fig. 1: Supralinear correction on v. 7 of the Tithonus Poem (P. Colon. 21351 l. 3)  115 Ch. 8, Fig. 1: Detail from cod. P of Dion. Halicarn. De comp. verb. 23  119 Ch. 9, Fig. 1: The Florence ostrakon containing Sappho’s fr. 2  142 Ch. 13, Fig. 1: Coin of Sicilian Acragas  195 Ch. 13, Fig. 2: Map of the Gulf of Kalloni with the places mentioned in the article  197 Ch. 13, Fig. 3: The Γιαλοβούνι promontory as seen from the hill of Pyrrha  198 Ch. 13, Fig. 4: Γιαλοβούνι in the Google Earth Images  198 Ch. 13, Fig. 5: Enlargement of the Google image showing particular spot of the octastyle tem- ple  199 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110630398-204