Sappho quotes

Question 1

Her poems were made for performance

Answer 1

come my divine lyre (118)

Question 2

comapnions refernced could be thiasos, students, poets, lovers or friends

Answer 2

for my companions/ I will sing (160)

Question 3

aristocratic, Sappho mocks the less refined parts of society

Answer 3

Does she even know how to pull up her ragged dress over her ankles? (57)

Question 4

obsession with beauty

Answer 4

Beautiful Lydian workmanship (39)

Question 5

Lesbos was rich in traded good. Sappho refers to exotic locations

Answer 5

A decorated headband/ from Sardis (98a)

Question 6

makarismos. Homeric

Answer 6

He seems to me equal to a god (31)

Question 7

physical symptoms of desire

Answer 7

My tongue breaks… delicate fire…sweat pours (31)

Question 8

Lesbos and its natural beauty are seductively personified

Answer 8

Here, the cold water sings (2)

Question 9

Homeric language e.g. epithets and journey of a god

Answer 9

Yoking your chariot:/ swift, beautiful sparrows (1)

Question 10

intimately involved with the lives of her students

Answer 10

While desire again circles you, my darling (22)

Question 11

language of war and juxtaposotion

Answer 11

The foot soldiers with their weapons (16)

Question 12

apples symbolise love and roses symbolise female genitalia

Answer 12

Just like the sweet apple reddening… they just couldn’t reach (105a)

Question 13

brutal way men treat female sexuality

Answer 13

Just like the hyacinth on a mountain/ trodden by the feet (105c)

Question 14

Homeric world with added female agency

Answer 14

Helen, the most beautiful woman on earth/abandoned her husband (16)

Question 15

Aphrodite speaks herself

Answer 15

Who, Sappho, is hurting you now? (1)

Question 16

Hyperbole. sexual humour. Male desire.

Answer 16

Like Ares/ bigger by far than the biggest man (111)

Question 17

obligations of women meet all consuming desire

Answer 17

I cannot weave my web (102)

Question 18

women appear flighty and changeable

Answer 18

Atthis, the thought of me / now repulses you (131)

Question 19

nostalgia for the days of youth and experimentaion

Answer 19

You will remember (24a)

Question 20

passionate relationships ended by marriage

Answer 20

Honestly, I want to die (94)

Question 21

regret and resentment over ,marriage

beautiful expression of bridegrooms joy

Answer 21

Lucky Bridegroom… you have the girl of your dreams (112)

Question 22

Longinus called (31) a perfect example of…

Answer 22

language of desire

Question 23

Awareness of her success

Answer 23

“Who gave their works and made me honoured”

Question 24

Don’t trust superficial beauty

Answer 24

“A handsome man is only good to look at/ a good man will become handsome”