hi all, just put another of my electronic grk notes online, on composing Sapphics in Aeolic Greek. similar to my iambic doc, i’ve tried to bring together everything you might need to compose sapphics yourself (and so to learn sappho’s own poems well).
I’ve created a consolidated grammar for Sappho, covering spelling, syntax, euphony, scansion and word placement. I pulled this together from various books in english and german.
I’ve prepared my own localisation data for Sappho’s first book and found out a few interesting things, described in the doc.
Given that Aphrodite is the key goddess in Sappho, I’ve summarised authorities on Grk religion generally and Aphrodite in particular. I’ve also prepared an annotated glossary (with annotations from the Sappho commentators), and finally put in some Sapphic compositions I put together using my notes, and have annotated these for composition purposes… now back to the world cup cheers, chad.