• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Sapphic Ostracon
  • Contributor: Turyn, Alexander
  • imprint: American Philological Association, 1942
  • Published in: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0065-9711
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  • Description: <p>Sappho's poem, published in 1937, is submitted to a text revision and given a new interpretation. The picture of the holy place in the poem is shown to be composed in accordance with traditional Greek descriptions of paradise which originated in the Orphic eschatology.</p>