"In general, the attribution of deliberate choice to things incapable of it produces a pleasing effect, as when Sappho questions her lyre, and the lyre answers her: 'Come, divine lyre, speak to me and find yourself a voice,' and the lines which follow." Korinna says she reworks 'stories from our fathers' time' and sings of 'heroes male and female.' It is possible that other women composed hymns or epic verse, although their performance venues certainly would be more limited than those for traditional bardic poetry."įrom "The Homeric Hymns, Translation, Introduction & Notes," p. In examining the Hymn to Aphrodite, Richard Janko notes a number of verbal parallels between its opening and Sappho's epicizing narrative of the wedding of Hektor and Andromache. We know that female poets, such as Sappho and Korinna, composed dactylic hexameter verses. The focus on Demeter's power, Persephone's coming of age, and the mother-daughter relationship, as well as the de-emphasis of Zeus, may point in that direction. "According to Ann Suter, a woman may have composed this anonymous hymn.
The inscription above the gate of Pythagorus's school - 'No one may enter here who does not know geometry' - is a sort of complement to that other dictum -įrom "The Genesis and Geometry of the Labyrinth," p. "What is the relationship between the geometric pattern of the labyrinth and the structure of the myth? The question is crucial when seeking the meaning of a 'way' that the ancient mysteries led to, because geometry has always been traditionally integrated with the esoteric tradition. Narcissus Poeticus (Poet's Narcissus, an old world bulb species) Hymn to Demeter: English & Ancient Greek, Illustrations & Commentary
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