Plate 2. PITTACUS, LORD OF LESBUS

One of the seven wise men of Greece, in whose reign Sappho was perhaps banished to Sicily. The bust was found in Asia Minor in a Roman villa (100 A.D.). Formerly in Baltimore in the collection of David M. Robinson, now in the Museum of Budapest. Cf. The Annual of the Budapest Museum, II, 1919-1920, p. 3. For other replicas cf. Lippold, Griechische PortrÄt-Statuen, p. 72

Plate 3. MYTILENE

Looking across the severing sea to Asia Minor

Plate 4. THE STORY OF PHAON

From a fifth century hydria in Florence by the Meidias painter himself. Phaon, tired of the ladies’ love-making, is seated in the middle below with the inscription “Phaon” over his head. Aphrodite is above in a chariot drawn by Pothos and Himeros. Reproduced from Milani, Monumenti Scelti del R. Museo Archeologico di Firenze, pl. III

Plate 5. THE BEAUTIFUL PHAON

On a Greek vase in Palermo. Reproduced from FurtwÄngler-Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, pl. 59

Plate 6. THE LEUCADIAN PROMONTORY

From an old engraving reproduced by Miss Patrick, Sappho and the Island of Lesbos, p. 96

Plate 7. ROMAN FRESCO

In an underground building found in Rome near the Porta Maggiore, showing to the left Apollo with lyre on the cliff, and to the right Sappho about to step off the rock into the sea, where a Triton waits with outspread garment. Behind Sappho higher up on the rock a winged Eros

Plate 8. A PAPYRUS OF THE THIRD CENTURY A.D.

With part of the text of a poem by Sappho. Reproduced from Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XV, 1922, No. 1787, fragment 1, pl. II

Plate 9. A CYLIX BY SOTADES

In the British Museum, representing a girl on tiptoe plucking the apple on the topmost bough. Reproduced from White Athenian Vases in the British Museum, pl. XVII

Plate 10. A GREEK COIN FROM MYTILENE

Showing probably Sappho’s head on one side and lyre on other. Enlarged twice the original size. Reproduced from Miss Patrick, Sappho and the Island of Lesbos, p. 73

Plate 11. IMPERIAL COINS

In the British Museum, representing Sappho. Reproduced from Miss Patrick, op. cit., p. 81

Plate 12. A GREEK VASE

In Munich, representing Alcaeus and Sappho. Reproduced from FurtwÄngler-Reichhold, op. cit., pl. 64

Plate 13. A BLACK-FIGURED CALPIS

Formerly in the Dzialinsky collection at Paris, now in Cracow, in the style of the Nicoxenus painter, with the earliest (about 500 B.C.) inscribed representation of Sappho

Plate 14. LOST LUCANIAN (?) VASE

Formerly in the Middleton collection. Sappho seated before a winged Eros who is bringing her a wreath. Reproduced from Museo Italiano, II, 1888, pl. III, 2

Plate 15. GREEK ARYBALLUS

In the style of the Meidias painter, in the Jatta collection at Ruvo, representing Thamyris giving a musical recital in the presence of Apollo, Aphrodite, and the Muses, among whom Sappho is included. Reproduced from RÖmische Mitteilungen, III, 1888, pl. IX

Plate 16. A FIFTH CENTURY GREEK HYDRIA

From Vari near Athens, showing Sappho seated and reading from a papyrus. According to Beazley the style is related to that of the Hector painter, though not by him. Reproduced from Jahreshefte, VIII, 1905, p. 40, Fig. 9

Plate 17. PHAON ABOUT TO FERRY APHRODITE ACROSS THE SEA

On a Greek vase in Bologna. Reproduced from Pellegrini, Catalogo dei Vasi Greci dipinti delle Necropoli Felsinee, Fig. 77

Plate 18. A POMPEIAN FRESCO

Supposed to represent Sappho and Alcaeus. Reproduced from Herrmann-Bruckmann, Denkmaeler der Malerei des Altertums, pl. 28

Plate 19. AN ANCIENT BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO

In the Villa Albani, Rome. Reproduced from Arndt-Brunn-Bruckmann, Griechische und RÖmische PortrÄts, pls. 147-148

Plate 20. THE OXFORD BUST, PROBABLY OF SAPPHO

Reproduced from Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXXVIII, 1918, pl. III

Plate 21. BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO

In the Borghese Palace, Rome. Photographed in the summer of 1922

Plate 22. STATUE OF SAPPHO

By Magni

Plate 23. A STATUE OF SAPPHO

By Pradier

Plate 24. RAPHAEL’S PARNASSUS

In the Vatican. Sappho is leaning on the left side of the doorway