The Brothers Poem
[...]
But you always chatter that Charaxus is coming,
His ship laden with cargo. That much, I reckon, only Zeus
Knows, and all the gods; but you, you should not
Think these thoughts,
Just send me along, and command me
To offer many prayers to Queen Hera
That Charaxus should arrive here, with
His ship intact,
And find us safe. For the rest,
Let us turn it all over to higher powers;
For periods of calm quickly follow after
Great squalls.
They whose fortune the king of Olympus wishes
Now to turn from trouble
to [ … ] are blessed
and lucky beyond compare.
As for us, if Larichus should [ … ] his head
And at some point become a man,
Then from full many a despair
Would we be swiftly freed.
And if Larikhos raises his head to the
fullest, and he shall therefore become a man,
from this heavy-weighing depression we shall
lift up ours and stand.
"The Brothers Poem" is a newly discovered poem by Sappho, first published in 2014..[1]
History
The poem was discovered by Dr Dirk Obbink of Oxford University on a papyrus from a private collection [2]
References
- ↑ Whitmarsh, Tim (29 January 2014). "Read Sappho's 'new' poem". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ↑ Higgins, Charlotte (29 January 2014). "Sappho: two previously unknown poems indubitably hers, says scholar". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
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