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grbs-7901	Stanley, Keith	The Rôle of Aphrodite in Sappho Fr. 1	1976	17	.pdf	application/pdf	8394	329	57	(supra n.34) 76: Aphrodite is the unconscious personification of the self-critical faculty of her personality which stands aside and views with detached amuse­ ment the appetitive element of her nature ... :' Cf Sappho 22.15, where, though the text is uncertain, there may be reference to a criticism by Aphrodite of Sappho's prayers (West, op.cit. 305 The Role of Aphrodite in Sappho Fr. 1 Keith Stanley SAPPHO'S Hymn to Aphrodite, standing so near to the beginning of our evidence for the religious and poetic traditions it embodies, remains a locus of disagreement about the function of the goddess in the poem and the degree of seriousness intended by Sappho's plea for her help.	cache/grbs-7901.pdf	txt/grbs-7901.txt