#sapphoposting

[thearchaicsmile]

A black figure kalpis depicting the poet Sappho (ΦΣΑΦΟ) holding a barbiton, an ancient stringed instrument similar to a lyre. Attributed to the eponymous Sappho Painter, active in Attica c. 510 to 490 BC.

🏛️: National Museum, Warsaw

#classics #classical antiquity #ancient greece #ancient greek #greece #greek #classical archaeology #greek archaeology #sappho #tenth muse #the poetess #national museum warsaw #sapphoposting

[septemberbells]

not to sapphopost but i am yearning for clear air

#smoke bye please

[unsound-unbody]

the quiet tension between transcribing the first line of Sappho's hymn to aphrodite with the word poecilophrona vs poecilothrona

#extremely niche sapphoposting