23. A STATUE OF SAPPHO. See text page 115.
24. RAPHAEL’S PARNASSUS. See text page 117.
[Illustration: 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]
Looking across the severing sea to Asia Minor]
[Illustration: 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]
[Illustration: PLATE 5. THE BEAUTIFUL PHAON
On a Greek vase in Palermo. Reproduced from Furtwängler-Reichhold, _Griechische Vasenmalerei_, pl. 59]
[Illustration: PLATE 6. THE LEUCADIAN PROMONTORY
From an old engraving reproduced by Miss Patrick, _Sappho and the Island of Lesbos_, p. 96]
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]
[Illustration: 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]
[Illustration: 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]
[Illustration: 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]
In the British Museum, representing Sappho. Reproduced from Miss Patrick, _op. cit._, p. 81]
In Munich, representing Alcaeus and Sappho. Reproduced from Furtwängler-Reichhold, _op. cit._, pl. 64]