A Study Guide for Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite"
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Hymn to Aphrodite
Sappho
c. 600 BC
Introduction
Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite
is the only poem from her many books of poetry to survive in its entirety. The actual text of the poem was quoted by Dionysus, an orator who lived in Rome about 30 B.C. He quoted Sappho's poem in full in one of his own works, which accounts for the poem's survival. Sappho's poem consists of a plea from a forlorn individual to help secure the ardor of a reluctant lover. Such requests were common for the period in which the poem was written, but Sappho's poem also provides a dialogue, since it provides the goddess's response to the poet's plea. Sappho's devotion to Aphrodite is reflected in this personal response, which suggests an intimacy, and thus a uniqueness, among such works. As is the case with Hymn to Aphrodite,
many of Sappho's poems focus on love and marriage, often addressing pleas to the goddess Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Sappho organized a group of her young female students into a thiasos, a cult that worshipped Aphrodite with songs and poetry, and Hymn to Aphrodite
was most likely composed for performance within this cult.
The Hymn to Aphrodite
has no specific date of composition but, like all Sappho's work, was composed in the sixth century B.C. After Sappho's death, her poems were preserved in an early third century B.C. library in Alexandria, Egypt, but eventually the texts disappeared and only fragments now remain. Recently, several translations of Hymn to Aphrodite
were included in Margaret Reynolds's study of Sappho's poetry, The Sappho Companion (2001). Another scholarly translation is included in Sappho: Poems and Fragments (1992), by Josephine Balmer.
Author Biography
There are few known facts about the Greek poet Sappho, but there has been much speculation in the efforts to account for her life. What is known is that Sappho was one of the great Greek lyrists and one of the few female poets of the ancient Greek world. Sappho was born around 625 B.C. and lived on the island of Lesvos (also spelled Lesbos). Much of what is thought to be known about Sappho has been taken from her poems, most of which exist only in fragments. In