Sappho’s Rose-Fingered Moon and Traditional Referentiality

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  • Thomas J. Nelson University of Oxford

Abstract

In fr.96, “rose-fingered moon,” often thought inept, is appropriate to the poem and credible, evoking not only the erotic image of the rose but also the doomed loves of Eos and Selene.

Author Biography

Thomas J. Nelson, University of Oxford

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford 

Junior Research Fellow in Classics, Wolfson College, Oxford

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Published

2024-05-17

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Vol. 64 No. 2 (2024)

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