{"id":276,"date":"2012-02-28T06:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2012-02-28T06:46:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:46:57","slug":"sappho-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/28\/sappho-fragment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sappho Fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Diehl 94 \/ Voigt 168b \/ Cox 48 (<a href=\"http:\/\/inamidst.com\/stuff\/sappho\/\">Source<\/a> for the original Greek)<\/p>\n<p>\u0394\u03ad\u03b4\u03c5\u03ba\u03b5 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u1f00 \u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1<\/p>\n<p>\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03a0\u03bb\u03b7\u03af\u03b1\u03b4\u03b5\u03c2\u00b7 \u03bc\u03ad\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bd\u03cd\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2,<\/p>\n<p>\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u1f70 \u03b4\u1fbd \u1f14\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03c4\u1fbd \u1f64\u03c1\u03b1\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>\u1f14\u03b3\u03c9 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bc\u03cc\u03bd\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03cd\u03b4\u03c9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Moon has set<\/p>\n<p>and the Seven Stars;<\/p>\n<p>it is the middle of the night,<\/p>\n<p>and the hour is passing;<\/p>\n<p>but I sleep alone.<\/p>\n<p>The translation is mine, albeit with a great deal of help from my professor and the rest of the class. I have done my best to achieve a balance between a literal translation and maintaining a sense of the poetry.\u00a0 The \u201chour\u201d (\u1f64\u03c1\u03b1) of which Sappho speaks conveys a strong implication of \u201copportunity\u201d, much as it can in some English usages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diehl 94 \/ Voigt 168b \/ Cox 48 (Source for the original Greek) \u0394\u03ad\u03b4\u03c5\u03ba\u03b5 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u1f00 \u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03a0\u03bb\u03b7\u03af\u03b1\u03b4\u03b5\u03c2\u00b7 \u03bc\u03ad\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bd\u03cd\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2, \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u1f70 \u03b4\u1fbd \u1f14\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03c4\u1fbd \u1f64\u03c1\u03b1\u00b7 \u1f14\u03b3\u03c9 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bc\u03cc\u03bd\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03cd\u03b4\u03c9 The Moon has set and the Seven Stars; it is the middle of the night, and the hour is passing; but I sleep alone. The &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/28\/sappho-fragment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[15,48,234,282,283],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-scholarship","tag-ancient-greek","tag-classical-studies","tag-sappho","tag-translation","tag-translations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-4s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}