New fragments of Sappho. Translation and analysis

Abstract

This paper studies the new fragments of Sappho which were found in the Cologne Papyrus (P.Köln) Inv. Nr.21351 + 21376 edited and published by M. Gronewald and R.W. Daniel in "Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik" (ZPE) 147, 149 (2004) and 154 (2005). That papyrus has three fragments, two of them which can be attributed to Sappho and another from an unknown author. In the two fragments from Sappho, one is completely new, and the other is related to Papyrus Oxyrrhynchus (P.Oxy.) 1787 fr. 1, between lines 11-22. From the new discovery it is possible to reconstruct a whole complete poem; the new fragment actually completes the poem transmitted in P.Oxy 1781. We study the importance of the new poems in the context of Sappho poetical themes, analyzing its dialect, its relation to Sappho‟s live and its relation with other poems of Sappho. We offer a Spanish translation and the reconstruction of the metric.