A Lesbian from
Mytilene,[1] a harp-player.[2] This woman threw herself into the sea from the cliff of Leukates for love of Phaon of
Mytilene.[3] Certain people have written that there is lyric poetry by her too.
[1] See already
sigma 107. This "'other
Sappho' was almost certainly the invention of a scholar who wished to save S.'s reputation" (
David A. Campbell, ed. and trans.
Greek Lyric I: Sappho and Alcaeus. Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University Press, 1982, p. 7). Manuscript A (Parisinus 2626), the oldest Suda manuscript, omits this entire entry, and Manuscript F (Cod.Laur.55,1) contains only the first sentence.
[2] "Harp-player" translates
psaltria, in contrast to
lyrike (lyre-player) in
sigma 107.
[3] See further at
phi 89. There the location is called the White (
Leukas) Cliff, a name perhaps prompted by one of her own poems; see M.R.Lefkowitz,
The Lives of the Greek Poets (London 1981) 37.
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