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The first line misses a delta as well: δἐδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα The poem is beautiful and the translations do its sophisticated simplicity no justice. Thanks to t
by Zickzack 6y ago
The first line misses a delta as well:
δἐδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
The poem is beautiful and the translations do its sophisticated simplicity no justice.
Thanks to the OP, by the way, for the astronomical article. I have tried to date the poem as well. And the imagery of the Nebra sky disk made me try even harder.
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y agoOh, I missed that- good catch. I was reading the blogpost linked by OP criticising the coverage of the paper (https://rogueclassicism.com/2016/05/16/problems-with-the-scientific-dating-of-sapphos-midnight-poem/ https://rogueclassicism.com/2016/05/16/problems-with-the-sci...) and it has an image of the poem as it's cited in the paper. Indeed, it says "δέδυκε" and "παρά δ' ἔρχετ‘ ὤρα". I suspect someone tried to copy the poem from the original paper and left behind a few characters, because LaTex. Or in any case some kind of transcription error occurred and nobody noticed because, well, ancient Greek.
- Jun8 6y agoGood catch and thanks for posting the correct text. While copying from the article in haste I didn't notice that some letters didn't come through. The language is tricky since Attic is only covered in introductory courses and this has sone non-Attic forms. For those of you who want to have a go in trying you hand at your own translation here are some short but useful notes (http://aoidoi.org/poets/sappho/sap-2.html http://aoidoi.org/poets/sappho/sap-2.html). I had an earlier version of these notes that were longer, i.e. he pointed out the tmesis in Line 3.