About Sappho

'About Sappho' is a companion piece to the vase animation Sappho 44: Hector and Andromache - A Wedding at Troy. It introduces you to Sappho, the Trojan War, and how her poetry was interpreted to reveal the tune that it would have been sung to in ancient times. It's for anyone to enjoy, and it's perfect for teachers looking for classroom materials covering poetry, art history, lesbian icons, and classical civilisation (especially for UK Key Stage 4-5).
'About Sappho' was created by the Panoply Vase Animation Project as part of the European Research Council funded project: Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges (Grant Agreement 681202; led by Prof Katarzyna Marciniak). For more animations and for more about Sappho and Our Mythical Childhood, visit www.panoply.org.uk
This video is available here for free educational use. Please do not download or add your logo for redistribution. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Translations:
German by Katrin Thaidigsmann
Belarusina and Russian by Angelina Gerus (MA student at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" UW)

[@TheMusicalStylingsofBrentBunn]

What a wonderful video. Well done. The song is enchanting as well. It is a tragedy we don't have more of Sappho's poetry.

[@sherylcrowe3255]

Thank you. Excellent presentation 👏

[@chaizacharyyy3832]

That had me crying

[@evangriffith4394]

This is wonderful. Is there any way of purchasing/downloading the music for Fragment 44? It's haunting & lovely.

[@PanoplyVaseAnimationProject]

Thanks. The ERC funded this so we can't sell the music. It is free for educational, non-commercial use. You might like the more complete version we made with Aliki Markantonatou. th-cam.com/video/QFkcmrH4XAg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9naZf7NNWz66Ju7P

[@bloo-m18]

This is amazing in all ways ! Incredible video. Thanks for sharing this !

[@PanoplyVaseAnimationProject]

You're welcome

[@Tekmirion]

Very good and informative but the Myth is a real story, dont confuse it with fairy-tale or para-Myth which is not! Nowadays Myth as a word has been suffered the change of its meaning so it would be nice not to reproduse it that way! :)

[@PanoplyVaseAnimationProject]

Thanks for commenting - we're glad you enjoyed it. We're happy with the word choice 'myth' because while there were real wars at Troy, the stories of 'the Trojan War' are just that - stories - myths. Key works such as the Iliad show influences from several different periods and the influence of Near Eastern works, so they're not 'history' as we understand it today, they're a product of a myth-making story-telling culture

[@pvp6077]

Tbh, I only recently learned about the Bronze age collapse and that nearly everything we "know" about ancient Greece was actually written 500+ years later by decendants going from oral histories after centuries of disruptions; natural disasters, famine, plague, and war, loss of cities, gov't, and culture.

[@kojrinkey4406]

So well presented. The music playing on the background is so enchanting and hypnotic, whish I could download it.🥹