Talk:Sappho 2/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Iazyges (talk · contribs) 17:41, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Will start soon. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 17:41, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Criteria

GA Criteria
GA Criteria: 1 1.a Y 1.b Y 2 2.a Y 2.b Y 2.c Y 2.d Y (0%.) 3 3.a Y 3.b Y 4 4.a Y 5 5.a Y 6 6.a Y 6.b Y

• No DAB links Y
• No Dead links Y
• Images appropriately licensed Y

Prose Suggestions

• discovered in Egypt and first published in 1937 is the date of the poems discovery known?

• most inconveniently, I can't find it anywhere. If it's anywhere, I would expect that it's in Nostra's 1937 paper, which I haven't managed to get access to yet...

• The two most likely hypotheses for the production of the ostrakon are that it was suggest The two hypotheses for the production of the ostrakon that are the most likely are that it was

• Rewritten this bit, which was admittedly clunky.

• suggesting that it is part of a different text; κατιου is not in Sappho's Aeolic dialect; and the most likely restoration of the line is unmetrical for a poem in Sapphic stanzas suggest suggesting that it came from a different text. This is furthered by the fact that κατιου itself is not a word found in Sappho's Aeolic dialect, and the most likely restoration of the line is unmetrical for a poem in Sapphic stanzas.

• Changed.

• attributes of Aphrodite: apples, roses, spring flowers, meadows, and horses are all linked to her. would suggest a change from attributes to symbols, unless attributes comes from the source material directly.

• Williamson says attributes. I don't have a strong opinion on which is better, though.

• girls ready for love does this mean those of eligible marrying age, or some sort of divinely determined time in which the girls are ready to love?

• I suspect it means girls who have entered puberty, but this isn't actually clear in the source; "girls ready for love" is a direct quote. Perhaps it's more idiomatic in the original Italian.

• @Caeciliusinhorto: That is all my comments. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 20:03, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks for this, @Iazyges:. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 21:14, 25 January 2018 (UTC)