![]() ![]() She entreats the goddess not to ignore her pleadings and so break a heart which is already stricken with grief. “Hymn to Aphrodite” begins with the unidentified speaker calling on the immortal goddess Aphrodite, daughter of the mighty Zeus, the use her unique skills to ensnare a reluctant lover. ![]() ![]() Although she is recorded in antiquity as producing many books of poetry, very little of her work has survived intact, and the only reason we have this complete poem is because a Roman orator called Dionysus (who lived in Rome about 30 BCE) quoted it in full in one of his own works. “Hymn to Aphrodite” (sometimes referred to as “ Ode to Aphrodite” or “Fragment 1”) is the only poem of the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho to survive in its entirety. Introduction | Synopsis | Analysis | Resources Introduction Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire (Catullus 8).Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus (Catullus 5).Passer, deliciae meae puellae (Catullus 2). ![]()
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