par Dominicy, Marc 
Référence Museum Helveticum, 82, 2, page (167-187)
Publication Publié, 2025-12-31
Référence Museum Helveticum, 82, 2, page (167-187)
Publication Publié, 2025-12-31
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Many attempts have been made to provide a (more or less emended) version and a well-founded metrical analysis of Sappho’s fragment 132. However, none of the solutions proposed up to now – including the most notorious one, due to Hermann and Neue – manages to conciliate textual plausibility and consistent meter. This article puts forth the hypothesis that fragment 132 is what remains of a song consisting of two quatrains, each of which combines a first module of two (successively catalectic and acatalectic) trochaic dimeters with a second module of two catalectic trochaic dimeters. This template where each module (respectively, quatrain) contains 8 (respectively, 16) beats occurs in very different languages of the world and is frequently attested in nursery rhymes, which provides an argument in favor of the traditional interpretation of fragment 132. |
