This author's poetic images include a chariot drawn by sparrows or by doves, depending on the translation. Longinus's On the Sublime makes an example of this poet's lines about a person who seems "equal to the gods." Anne Carson's collection If Not, Winter adapts this poet, who names a type of stanza in which a five-syllable ending caps off three hendecasyllable lines. This user of the Aeolic dialect allegedly left a group of followers called a thiasos leaderless upon jumping off a cliff for Phaon. Among many fragments, this author leaves only one complete poem, a 28-line "Hymn to Aphrodite." For 10 points, name this ancient Greek lyric poet,
This author's poetic images include a chariot drawn by sparrows or by doves, depending on the translation. Longinus's On the Sublime makes an example of this poet's lines about a person who seems "equal to the gods." Anne Carson's collection If Not, Winter adapts this poet, who names a type of stanza in which a five-syllable ending caps off three hendecasyllable lines. This user of the Aeolic dialect allegedly left a group of followers called a thiasos leaderless upon jumping off a cliff for Phaon. Among many fragments, this author leaves only one complete poem, a 28-line "Hymn to Aphrodite." For 10 points, name this ancient Greek lyric poet, a woman from Lesbos.
This author's poetic images include a chariot drawn by sparrows or by doves, depending on the translation.
Sappho of Lesbos [or Psappha]