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Headword:
Φάων
Adler number: phi,89
Translated headword: Phaon
Vetting Status: low
Translation: They say this in reference to those who are desirable but arrogant. For they say that Phaon was loved by
Sappho, as well as by many others -- not
Sappho the poetess, but a[nother] Lesbian -- and when she was rejected, she threw herself from the Leucadian rock.
Φάων: φασὶν ἐπὶ τῶν ἐρασμίων καὶ ὑπερηφάνων. τοῦ γὰρ Φάωνος ἐρασθῆναί φασι σὺν πολλοῖς καὶ Σαπφώ, οὐ τὴν ποιήτριαν, ἀλλὰ Λεσβίαν, καὶ ἀποτυγχάνουσαν ῥίψαι ἑαυτὴν ἀπὸ τῆς Λευκάδος πέτρας.
Note:
For the supposed distinction, in fact untenable, between
Sappho the poetess from
Lesbos and
Sappho the musician from
Lesbos see
sigma 107 and
sigma 108 respectively. In the latter Phaon comes from
Mytilene, as does
Sappho herself; and other sources call him a ferryman. The "Leucadian rock" was the SW promontory -- Cape Leucatas -- of the island of Leucas (in the Ionian sea), which has a sheer, 2000-foot drop. See generally
Strabo 10.2.9, quoting a fragment of
Menander (fr.258 Koerte-Thierfelder, from the
Leucadia) which alludes to this story
M.R.Lefkowitz, "Critical stereotypes and the poetry of Sappho," Greek, Roman & Byzantine Studies 14 (1973) pp.113-123, at 116.
G.Nagy, "Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the white rock of Leucas," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 77 (1973) pp.141-3.
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; gender and sexuality; geography; poetry; proverbs; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 December 2001@00:57:06.
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