tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post3758479389792616957..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Review: Sappho...in 9 fragmentsAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-46509429830156459642010-08-11T22:12:14.966+10:002010-08-11T22:12:14.966+10:00As the review perhaps doesn't make clear enoug...As the review perhaps doesn't make clear enough, that is a quote from Montgomery Griffiths' imagined character, Atthis, who actually exists in the present. So no problem with the chronology, after all.<br /><br />It's a story that's bandied around in all sorts of places, so I imagine Aristophanes could well have recounted it.Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-6370756188849088652010-08-11T17:01:42.245+10:002010-08-11T17:01:42.245+10:00Strictly speaking Sappho isn't being reminisce...Strictly speaking Sappho isn't being reminiscent of Plato there as he didn't exist at the time for Sappho to reminisce about! (It's a little like the time I got my work timetable telling me that I was scheduled to leave several hours before I arrived on a certain day of the week.) Pardon the pedantry. <br /><br />Also, is that Plato story the one told by Aristophanes? Good old A. His TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.com