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The 4). Essay Sappho meaning this (more girl’ ‘darling just even sister’ ‘dear like something means that endearment term Greek explain which name etymology the with woman, loving girl beloved both Sappho, role bivalent such connect 54–56, 2015.10.01§§2–5, and 2017.08.28) (plus 2015§§166–172 work, earlier girl. 1§19. On the other hand, if we interpret the combination of erōs ‘desire’ with partheniā ‘girlhood’ at line 4 of 5.246 to mean ‘desire for things having to do with girlhood’, where the genitive of partheniā is understood as a genitive of connection, then the desire becomes non-metaphorical and, thus, overtly erotic. In this case, the agency of desire will no longer be seen as a Platonic ‘soul’, a psūkhē. Rather, it can now reveal itself as a Sapphic ‘heart’, a thūmos, as we find it at work in Song 1 of Sappho, the entire text of which I will quote, with translation, in the next paragraph. Thus erōs can now be seen as Sapphic desire, which makes Sappho herself not only the object of desire—the love object that is desired—but also the subject who desires. She can be both the girl who is loved by a woman and the woman who is loved by a girl. In earlier work, N 2015§§166–172 (plus N 2017.08.28) and N 2015.10.01§§2–5, 54–56, I connect such a bivalent role of Sappho, both beloved girl and loving woman, with the etymology of the name of Sappho, which I explain as a Greek term of endearment that means something like ‘dear sister’ or even just ‘darling girl’ (more on this meaning in Sappho I Essay 4). The roles of Sappho as beloved girl and even loving girl can be connected with the etymology of the name of Sappho, which I explain as a Greek term of endearment that means something like ‘dear sister’ or even just ‘darling girl’ (N 2024.12.21 Sappho 0 Essay 4§§166–172 and Sappho I Essay 4§§4–5; also N 2017.08.28).

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