KEY TO ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE
2.Pittacus, Lord of Lesbus. [See text page 22.]
3.Mytilene. [See text page 23.]
4.The Story of Phaon. [See text page 40.]
5.The Beautiful Phaon. [See text page 40.]
6.The Leucadian Promontory. [See text page 40.]
7.Roman Fresco. [See text page 42.]
8.A Papyrus of the Third Century A.D. [See text page 46.]
9.A Cylix by Sotades. [See text page 93.]
10.A Greek Coin from Mytilene. [See text page 101.]
11.Imperial Coins. [See text page 101.]
12.A Greek Vase. [See text page 103.]
13.A Black-Figured Calpis. [See text page 104.]
14.Lost Lucanian (?) Vase. [See text page 104.]
15.Greek Aryballus. [See text page 105.]
16.A Fifth Century Greek Hydria. [See text page 106.]
17.Phaon about to Ferry Aphrodite across the Sea. [See text page 108.]
18.A Pompeian Fresco. [See text page 108.]
19.An Ancient Bust Probably of Sappho. [See text
page 111.]
20.The Oxford Bust, Probably of Sappho. [See text
page 112.]
21.Bust Probably of Sappho. [See text page 112.]
22.Statue of Sappho. [See text page 114.]
23.A Statue of Sappho. [See text page 115.]
24.Raphael’s Parnassus. [See text page 117.]

Plate 2. PITTACUS, LORD OF LESBUS

One of the seven wise men of Greece, in whose reign Sappho was perhaps banished to Sicily. The bust was found in Asia Minor in a Roman villa (100 A.D.). Formerly in Baltimore in the collection of David M. Robinson, now in the Museum of Budapest. Cf. The Annual of the Budapest Museum, II, 1919-1920, p. 3. For other replicas cf. Lippold, Griechische Porträt-Statuen, p. 72

Plate 3. MYTILENE

Looking across the severing sea to Asia Minor

Plate 4. THE STORY OF PHAON

From a fifth century hydria in Florence by the Meidias painter himself. Phaon, tired of the ladies’ love-making, is seated in the middle below with the inscription “Phaon” over his head. Aphrodite is above in a chariot drawn by Pothos and Himeros. Reproduced from Milani, Monumenti Scelti del R. Museo Archeologico di Firenze, pl. III

Plate 5. THE BEAUTIFUL PHAON

On a Greek vase in Palermo. Reproduced from Furtwängler-Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, pl. 59

Plate 6. THE LEUCADIAN PROMONTORY

From an old engraving reproduced by Miss Patrick, Sappho and the Island of Lesbos, p. 96

Plate 7. ROMAN FRESCO

In an underground building found in Rome near the Porta Maggiore, showing to the left Apollo with lyre on the cliff, and to the right Sappho about to step off the rock into the sea, where a Triton waits with outspread garment. Behind Sappho higher up on the rock a winged Eros

Plate 8. A PAPYRUS OF THE THIRD CENTURY A.D.

With part of the text of a poem by Sappho. Reproduced from Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XV, 1922, No. 1787, fragment 1, pl. II

Plate 9. A CYLIX BY SOTADES

In the British Museum, representing a girl on tiptoe plucking the apple on the topmost bough. Reproduced from White Athenian Vases in the British Museum, pl. XVII

Plate 10. A GREEK COIN FROM MYTILENE

Showing probably Sappho’s head on one side and lyre on other. Enlarged twice the original size. Reproduced from Miss Patrick, Sappho and the Island of Lesbos, p. 73

Plate 11. IMPERIAL COINS

In the British Museum, representing Sappho. Reproduced from Miss Patrick, op. cit., p. 81

Plate 12. A GREEK VASE

In Munich, representing Alcaeus and Sappho. Reproduced from Furtwängler-Reichhold, op. cit., pl. 64

Plate 13. A BLACK-FIGURED CALPIS

Formerly in the Dzialinsky collection at Paris, now in Cracow, in the style of the Nicoxenus painter, with the earliest (about 500 B.C.) inscribed representation of Sappho

Plate 14. LOST LUCANIAN (?) VASE

Formerly in the Middleton collection. Sappho seated before a winged Eros who is bringing her a wreath. Reproduced from Museo Italiano, II, 1888, pl. III, 2

Plate 15. GREEK ARYBALLUS

In the style of the Meidias painter, in the Jatta collection at Ruvo, representing Thamyris giving a musical recital in the presence of Apollo, Aphrodite, and the Muses, among whom Sappho is included. Reproduced from Römische Mitteilungen, III, 1888, pl. IX

Plate 16. A FIFTH CENTURY GREEK HYDRIA

From Vari near Athens, showing Sappho seated and reading from a papyrus. According to Beazley the style is related to that of the Hector painter, though not by him. Reproduced from Jahreshefte, VIII, 1905, p. 40, Fig. 9

Plate 17. PHAON ABOUT TO FERRY APHRODITE ACROSS THE SEA

On a Greek vase in Bologna. Reproduced from Pellegrini, Catalogo dei Vasi Greci dipinti delle Necropoli Felsinee, Fig. 77

Plate 18. A POMPEIAN FRESCO

Supposed to represent Sappho and Alcaeus. Reproduced from Herrmann-Bruckmann, Denkmaeler der Malerei des Altertums, pl. 28

Plate 19. AN ANCIENT BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO

In the Villa Albani, Rome. Reproduced from Arndt-Brunn-Bruckmann, Griechische und Römische Porträts, pls. 147-148

Plate 20. THE OXFORD BUST, PROBABLY OF SAPPHO

Reproduced from Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXXVIII, 1918, pl. III

Plate 21. BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO

In the Borghese Palace, Rome. Photographed in the summer of 1922

Plate 22. STATUE OF SAPPHO

By Magni

Plate 23. A STATUE OF SAPPHO

By Pradier

Plate 24. RAPHAEL’S PARNASSUS

In the Vatican. Sappho is leaning on the left side of the doorway

Our Debt to Greece and Rome
AUTHORS AND TITLES

1. Homer. John A. Scott, Northwestern University.

2. Sappho. David M. Robinson, The Johns Hopkins University.

3A. Euripides. F. L. Lucas, King’s College, Cambridge.

3B. Aeschylus and Sophocles. J. T. Sheppard, King’s College, Cambridge.

4. Aristophanes. Louis E. Lord, Oberlin College.

5. Demosthenes. Charles D. Adams, Dartmouth College.

6. Aristotle’s Poetics. Lane Cooper, Cornell University.

7. Greek Historians. Alfred E. Zimmern, University of Wales.

8. Lucian. Francis G. Allinson, Brown University.

9. Plautus and Terence. Charles Knapp, Barnard College, Columbia University.

10A. Cicero. John C. Rolfe, University of Pennsylvania.

10B. Cicero as Philosopher. Nelson G. McCrea, Columbia University.

11. Catullus. Karl P. Harrington, Wesleyan University.

12. Lucretius and Epicureanism. George Depue Hadzsits, University of Pennsylvania.

13. Ovid. Edward K. Rand, Harvard University.

14. Horace. Grant Showerman, University of Wisconsin.

15. Virgil. John William Mackail, Balliol College, Oxford.

16. Seneca. Richard Mott Gummere, The William Penn Charter School.

17. Roman Historians. G. Ferrero, Florence.

18. Martial. Paul Nixon, Bowdoin College.

19. Platonism. Alfred Edward Taylor, University of Edinburgh.

20. Aristotelianism. John L. Stocks, University of Manchester, Manchester.

21. Stoicism. Robert Mark Wenley, University of Michigan.

22. Language and Philology. Roland G. Kent, University of Pennsylvania.

23. Rhetoric and Literary Criticism. (Greek) W. Rhys Roberts, Leeds University.

24. Greek Religion. Walter W. Hyde, University of Pennsylvania.

25. Roman Religion. Gordon J. Laing, University of Chicago.

26. Mythologies. Jane Ellen Harrison, Newnham College, Cambridge.

27. Theories Regarding the Immortality of the Soul. Clifford H. Moore, Harvard University.

28. Stage Antiquities. James T. Allen, University of California.

29. Greek Politics. Ernest Barker, King’s College, University of London.

30. Roman Politics. Frank Frost Abbott, Princeton University.

31. Roman Law. Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law School.

32. Economics and Society. M. T. Rostovtzeff, Yale University.

33. Warfare by Land and Sea. E. S. McCartney, University of Michigan.

34. The Greek Fathers. Roy J. Deferrari, The Catholic University of America.

35. Biology and Medicine. Henry Osborn Taylor, New York.

36. Mathematics. David Eugene Smith, Teachers College, Columbia University.

37. Love of Nature. H. R. Fairclough, Leland Stanford Junior University.

38. Astronomy and Astrology. Franz Cumont, Brussels.

39. The Fine Arts. Arthur Fairbanks, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

40. Architecture. Alfred M. Brooks, Swarthmore College.

41. Engineering. Alexander P. Gest, Philadelphia.

42. Greek Private Life, Its Survivals. Charles Burton Gulick, Harvard University.

43. Roman Private Life, Its Survivals. Walton B. McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania.

44. Folk Lore.

45. Greek and Roman Education.

46. Christian Latin Writers. Andrew F. West, Princeton University.

47. Roman Poetry and Its Influence upon European Culture. Paul Shorey, University of Chicago.

48. Psychology.

49. Music. Théodore Reinach, Paris.

50. Ancient and Modern Rome. Rodolfo Lanciani, Rome.