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Anacreon’s famous poem on the girl from Lesbos—fragment 358 PMG—is analysed in terms of lightness, quickness, and multiplicity, stressed by Italo Calvino as important qualities of literature in general and in particular. Sappho is not the protagonist here, as some later ancient authors presumed. Yet, by means of complex ambiguity, (self-)irony, and allusion to literary tradition, Anacreon has composed a playful homage to her as his predecessor in erotic poetry. Accordingly, in the course of these eight lines, not only Anacreon but also Sappho appear as paradigmatic poets with regard to the typical polymorphous and sophisticated ambiance of the archaic symposion. The investigation includes a critical assessment of the main positions advanced in the sometimes heated debate on this poem in modern scholarship up to the present day.
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