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  101V 53

  Moon and the Pleiades go down

  168bV 29

  Neither the honey nor the bee

  146V 83

  Nereids, Kypris, please restore

  5LP 47

  Nightingale

  136V 69

  Now, Dika, weave the aniseed together, flower and stem

  81V 13

  Off in Sardis

  96V 37

  Once as a too, too lissome

  122V 65

  Over eyelids dark night fell

  151V 29

  Peace, you never seemed so tedious

  91V 29

  Reveal your graceful figure here

  17V 61

  Since I have cast my lot, please, golden-crowned

  33V 7

  Some call ships, infantry or horsemen

  16V 59

  Stand and face me, dear; release

  138V 33

  Star clusters near the fair moon dim

  34V 79

  Subtly bedizened Aphrodite

  1V 9

  Sweet mother, I can’t take shuttle in hand

  102V 7

  That fellow strikes me as god’s double

  31V 23

  That impossible predator

  130V 21

  The ambrosial mixture

  141V 77

  The gorgeous man presents a gorgeous view

  50V 83

  Untainted Graces

  53V 13

  Wealth without real worthiness

  148V 83

  What do you resemble, dear husband-to-be?

  115V 75

  What farm girl, garbed in fashions from the farm

  57V 35

  Yes, you have all heard

  166V 61

  You see, my mother

  98aV 51

  You were at hand

  48V 27

  You will have memories

  24aV 39

  General Index

  Abanthis xi, xxxviii, 36, 42

  Achilles 40, 56, 76

  Adonis xiii, 10

  Aeschylus 60, 66

  aesymnētēs (lord/tyrant) xviii

  Agamemnon 40, 60

  agōgē (Spartan public upbringing) xxiv

  aidōs (respect/shame) 84

  aimitybion (handkerchief) 52

  Alcaeus xii–xiii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxviii, xxxviii, xxix, 60, 76, 84

  Alcman xxiv–xxv, xxxvi

  Anacreon xiii, xxi

  Anagora xiv, xxiv

  anakalyptēria (unveiling of the bride) xxix

  Andromache xxviii, xxxiv, 56

  Andromeda xiv–xv, xxiii, 34, 36, 38

  Aphrodite xiii, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxvi, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 40, 42, 46, 64, 76

  Apollo xxvi, 82

  Apollonius Dyscolus 84

  Archilochus xiii, xxxviii–xxxix, 22

  Aristarchus of Samothrace xliii

  Aristophanes xix, xxxviii, 10, 52

  Aristophanes of Byzantium xliii

  Aristotle xvi, 82, 84

  Artemis xxv–xxvi, 10, 28, 64

  Astyanax 56

  Athena xxvi, xxxiii, 8, 60, 64

  Athenaeus xxiv, 12, 32, 34, 52

  Atreus 60

  Atthis xiv, xxxiii–xxxiv, 36, 38

  aulos (double-oboe) 56

  Bacchylides xxxv, 78

  Bennett, Chris xxv

  Burkert, Walter xxvi, 10

  Burnett, Anne xxi, xxiii, xxxiv, 4, 42, 70

  Calame, Claude xxiv, xxv

  Carson, Anne 8

  Castor 60

  Catullus xxxix, 16, 22, 28, 66, 68, 74

  Charaxus (brother of Sappho) xi–xii, 46

  charien (charming) 4

  Charon 20

  chorus/choral songs xx, xxxv, xxxvi–xxxviii, 12, 24, 66, 68, 70, 72, 78

  Chrysippus of Soli 84

  Cicero xviii

  Clytemnestra 60

  Cyprus see Kyprus

  dactylic hexameters 66

  Dawn (Eos) xiii, 10, 12, 36, 44

  Demetrius 66

  Dio Chrysostum 86

  Diogenian 82

  Diomedes xxxii

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus xxxv

  Dionysus 60

  Dis see Hades

  doorkeepers (at weddings) xxx

  Doricha xii, 46

  Dubois, Page xxxiii, 58

  ekdosis (wedding ceremony) xxviii–xxix

  engeuēsis (engagement ceremony) xxviii

  Eos see Dawn

  epithalamium (epithalamia) xx, xxviii–xxx, xxxvi, 34, 56, 66, 68–79

  eraton (lovely) xxxiv

  Eriguios (brother of Sappho) xi, xii

  Eros xxv, xxvi, 12, 20, 58, 76

  Eunica xiv

  Euripides xxviii, xxxii–xxxiii

  Eustathius of Thessalonica 78

  frankincense see libanōtos

  Ganymede 76

  Ginsberg, Allen xxxix

  gnomē/gnomic statements 40, 82

  Gongyla xiv, xxiv, xxxi, 20, 42

  Gorgo xiv–xv, xxiii

  Graces (Kharites) 12, 14, 44

  habrotēs (extravagance) xxxiv

  Hadas, Rachel xxxii

  Hades (Dis) 16, 64

  Hebe 76

  Hecataeus 52

  Hecate 10

  Hector 56, 78

  Helen of Troy xxxiii, xxxix, 6, 58, 60

  Hera xxv, xxxii, 60, 76

  Hermes xiii, xxvi, 6, 20

  Hermogenes 16

  Herodotus 46

  Hesiod xx, 10, 12, 14, 20, 78

  Hesperus 68

  Hestia 64

  hetaira (hetairai) (female companions) xix

  hetaireia (hetaireiai) (political clubs) xv, xvi, xxi–xxii, xxiii

  Hipponax xiii

  Homer xix, xxxi, xxxii, xxxviii, 6, 8, 20, 22, 36, 56, 64, 68, 78 Iliad xv, xxvi, xxxii, 6, 20, 40, 56, 76, 78

  Odyssey xiii, xv, xxvi, xxxvii–xxxviii, 6, 8, 20, 56, 60, 68

  Horace xxxix

  hymn, kletic (hymn that summons a deity) xxvi, 4, 8, 14, 60

  hypomnēsia (citation of a god’s past deeds) xxvi–xxvii

  Iamblichus 26

  Idaos 56

  irēna (peace) 28

  Itylus 68

  Julian the Apostate 26

  kalai (gorgeous ones) xxiii, 34

  to kalon (the beautiful) xxxiv

  Kalypso 6

  Kharites see Graces

  Kleïs (daughter/slave of Sappho) xii, xvii–xviii, 14, 48

  Kleïs (mother of Sappho) 50

  kleos (glory/renown) xxxiv, 56

  kletic hymn see hymn, kletic

  korai (girls) xviii

  krotala (castanets/rattles) 56

  kyrios (legal guardian) xxviii

  Laertes 6

  Lanata, Giuliana 20

  Lardinos, André xxxvi, 42

  Larichos (brother of Sappho) xi, xii

  Leda 60

  Lefkowitz, Mary xxxii

  Leucas Petra see Shining Rock

  libanōtos (frankincense) 5, 56

  Longinus 22

  makarismos (makarismoi) (blessing) 34, 56, 76

  Marlowe, Christopher 84

  Maximus of Tyre xiv, 14

  Medea (Euripides) xxviii, xxxii–xxxiii

  Megacles xvi

  Megara xiv

  Melanchrus xvi–xvii

  Menander xiii

  Menelaus 60

  Milton, John 64

  Mnemosyne 14

  Moisopolōn domos (House of Those Dedicated to the Muses) xx–xxi

  monodic (solo) songs xx, xxxv, xxxvi–xxxviii, 12, 56

  Muses xxv, 14, 16, 44

  Musician’s House, the xxi, 14

  myrrh 24, 56

  Myrsilus xvii, xviii

  Neoptolemos 56

  Nereids xxv, 46

  Nestor 60

  nightingales 68, 78

  Odysseus xiii, xxxvii–xxxviii, 6, 8

  Olson, Douglas 56, 84<
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  Ovid xiv

  Paeon, Apollo as xxvi, 57

  Page, Denys xxvi, 74

  pais (paides) (children/girls) xviii, 34, 50, 78

  paractactic style xxxiv

  Paris xxxiii, 6, 58

  Parker, Holt xix, xxi–xxii

  parthenos (parthenoi) (maidens) xviii

  pēctis (large many-stringed lyre) xxxv, 16

  Peleus 76

  Penelope 6

  pentathlon 78

  Penthelids xv–xvi, xviii

  Persephone 64

  Phaon xiii, xiv

  Philomela 68

  Phrynon xvii

  Pindar xxxv, xxxvii, 58, 82

  Pittacus xvii, xviii, 48

  Plato xiv, 16, 26, 32

  plectrum (pick for a lyre) xxxv, 16

  Pleiades 28

  Plutarch xxiv, xxxviii, 16

  Polydeuces 60

  Polyxena Sarcophagus xxv

  Pope, Alexander 16

  Priam, King xxxiv

  priamels 58

  Procne 68

  propempticon (prayer for safe travel) 46

  Psychopompus 20

  Raleigh, Sir Walter 84

  Rhodope 46

  Sages (Seven Sages of Greece) xviii

  Segal, Charles xxxv, 76

  Shakespeare, William 64

  Shining Rock (Leucas Petra) xiii–xiv

  Sissa, Giulia xxx

  Skamandrios (father of Sappho) xi

  Smardis xvi

  Socrates xiv, xxi

  Sophocles 68

  Steele Timothy xxxix

  Stigers, Eva Stehle xxxiii

  Stobaeus 16, 42

  Strabo xxxviii

  Suda xii, xiv, 50

  summachos (ally in battle) xxxii, 8

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles xxxix, 68

  symposia (symposium) xix, xxi–xxii

  Telesippa xiv

  Tennyson, Alfred Lord 44

  Terentianus Maurus 38

  Tereus, King of Thrace 68

  thalamus (wedding chamber) xxix

  thelxis (enchantment) xxxv

  Theocritus 34, 74

  Thetis 76

  thiasos (thiasoi) (religious communities) xix, xxiv, xxv, xxvii–xxviii

  timē (honour) xv, 40

  Tithonous xiii, 10, 44

  Troy xvi, xvii, xxviii, xxxiv, 56, 60 see also Helen of Troy

  Tryphon 82

  Tullius Laurea xliii

  Tyndareus 60

  tyrants (Age of Tyrants) xv, xvi–xvii

  Tzetzes, John xliv

  Venus see Aphrodite

  Venus (planet) (Evening Star) 68

  von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, Ulrich xix

  West, Martin xvi

  Wilson, Lynn xxx, 24, 56

  Winkler, Jack xxxvii

  Zeus xxv, 12, 44, 60, 64, 68, 76

  zōma (bridal belt) (Aeolic dialect) xxix

  zōnē (bridal belt) (Attic dialect) xxix