Sappho quotes

Question 1

Gods

Answer 1

Loeb 1 ‘Aphrodite, goddess of the embroidered throne Loeb 1 ‘She will love you even if she does not want to’

Question 2

Homoeroticism

Answer 2

Loeb 22 ‘Take up your lyre and sing of Gongyla’
Loeb 16 about Anactoria ‘I would rather see her lovely walk, and her gleaming face, than look at all the chariots of Lydia’
Loeb 94 ‘honestly, I wanted to die. weeping, she was leaving me’
Loeb 102 ‘I am smitten by a boy’
Loeb 94 ‘oh sappho, after all we have been through! i mean this, i do not want to leave you’
Loeb 121 ‘i never want to be the older one in a relationship’

Question 3

Symbolism

Answer 3

Loeb 32 ‘Around the beautiful moon, the stars hide away their gleaming brilliance’
Loeb 81 ‘the blessed graces favour the beautifully floral over the ungarlanded’

Question 4

Symptoms of desire

Answer 4

Loeb 31 ‘delicate fire runs beneath my skin’ ‘a buzzing in my ears’
Loeb 31 ‘sweat pours over me and a tremor seizes me all over’
Loeb 48 ‘soothed my soul which was burning with desire’
Loeb 94 ‘on a soft bed, you satisfied your desire’
Loeb 130 ‘love which loosens the limbs / bittersweet, invincible creature that he is’
Loeb 137 ‘ “i want to say something, but a sense of shame holds me back” ‘

Question 5

Symptoms of love

Answer 5

Loeb 47 ‘love shook my soul, like wind buffeting oak trees’
Loeb 96 ‘the longing consumes her flighty soul’
Loeb 31 ‘when i see you, even for a moment, i can no longer speak’
Loeb 31 ‘your sweet voice / your charming laughter / which for me honestly strikes terror into the heart in my breast’
Loeb 51 ‘i don’t know what i am going to do, i am in two minds’
Loeb 1 ‘who, sappho, is hurting you now?’
Loeb 17 helen ‘most beautiful’ leaving menelaus ‘most excellent’ forgetting her daughter and parents

Question 6

Marriage

Answer 6

Loeb 110 ‘The doorkeep has size 27 feet’
Loeb 111 ‘Raise the roof’ ‘The bridegroom is coming’
Loeb 30 ‘may the maidens sing all night long’
Loeb 112 ‘you have the girl of your dreams’ ‘lucky bridegroom’
Loeb 31 ‘he seems to me equal to a god’

Question 7

Trends

Answer 7

Loeb 114 ‘virginity, virginity, where have you gone’
Loeb 39 ‘embroidered sandals’ ‘beautiful Lydian workmanship’
Loeb 57 ‘Does she even know how to pull up her ragged dress over her ankles?’
Loeb 98 in her mother’s time it was fashionable to tie hair up in a purple headband, but if her hair was yellow then to wear garlands of flowers

Question 8

other

Answer 8

Loeb 50 ‘a handsome man is only good to look at, a good man will become handsome’
Loeb 148 ‘wealth without virtue can be a harmful neighbour. a blend of the two, however, is the height of happiness’