The academy's secretary compared Dylan to Homer and Sappho for poems...

瑞典学院常任秘书将迪伦的作品与古希腊两位诗人荷马和萨芙相提并论。

The poet Sappho was said to have used it over 2,600 years ago.

据说诗人萨福在2600多年前就使用过这个表达。

It advertises the Sappho fragment for sale by private treaty.

它通过私下交易方式宣传出售这件萨福碎片。

The Sappho manuscript hadn't been found in mummy cartonnage, after all, but " industrial cartonnage" , perhaps used for bookbinding.

事实上，萨福手稿并没有被发现在木乃伊覆盖板中，而是在“工业用纸板”中被找到，可能是用于书籍装订。

If Sappho were alive now, would she identify as a lesbian woman?

如果萨福现在还活着，她会认为自己是女同性恋吗？

Sappho's poems play with our expectations of gender and set up teasing questions about sexuality.

萨福的诗歌玩弄了我们对性别的期望，并提出了关于性的挑逗性问题。

Answering these questions is a challenge because much of Sappho's work is lost.

回答这些问题是一项挑战，因为萨福的大部分作品都已失传。

At first, in January 2014, he revealed only that the Sappho papyrus was owned by an anonymous private collector in London.

最初，即在 2014 年 1 月，他仅透露萨福纸莎是由伦敦的一位匿名私人收藏家所拥有。

Sappho's poems on her most important subjects - sex and love - are about everyone.

萨福关于她最重要的主题— — 性与爱—— 的诗歌是关于每个人的。

Sappho does not care who we love.

萨福不在乎我们爱谁。

Sappho wanted her poetry to make people think about experiences that are transgender, or that transcend gender.

萨福希望她的诗歌能让人们思考跨性别或超越性别的经历。

We could learn a lot from the poet Sappho, who lived in the 6th century BC on the Greek island of Lesbos.

我们可以从生活在公元前 6 世纪希腊莱斯博斯岛的诗人萨福那里学到很多东西。

" A Sappho poem, " as the Telegraph's headline put it, " is more exciting than a new David Bowie album" .

正如《每日电讯报》的标题所说：“一首萨福的诗，比一张新的大卫·鲍伊专辑更令人兴奋。”

This new information conveniently solved the dating problem, since industrial cartonnage was still being made during the period to which the Sappho manuscript had been carbon-dated.

这个新信息巧妙地解决了日期问题，因为工业用纸板在萨福手稿被碳测定的时期仍在生产。

This " industrial cartonnage" , with the Sappho supposedly hidden within it, had been purchased by auction at Christie's in 2011, as part of a mixed lot of papyrus.

这种据说藏有萨福手稿的 “工业用纸板” 是在 2011 年由佳士得拍卖行以混合纸莎批次的形式购得的。

But Ms Vallejo attributes to Sappho, the single substantial female voice from the Greek literary world, a revolution in thinking: open, written, personal defiance.

。 但瓦列霍女士认为萨福是希腊文学界唯一一位重要的女性声音， 这是一场思想革命： 公开的、书面的、 个人的反抗。

And it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.

这仿佛是萨福和西登斯夫人的侧影，复合成一个既不像他们本人却又神似的意象。

Obbink also reported that at some point some 20 smaller fragments of the Sappho manuscript had been " deemed insignificant" by the anonymous owner, and sold off to the Greens.

奥比克还报告说，萨福手稿的约 20 个较小片段在某个时候被这位匿名所有者视为 “无足轻重”，然后被出售给了格林斯。

Perhaps Sampson's most telling finding, though, is that parts of the Sappho manuscript were shown in public when they were supposedly still undiscovered in a wodge of industrial cartonnage.

不过，也许桑普森最有说服力的发现是，萨福手稿的部分内容在公开展示时，据称它们仍然被认为藏在一块工业纸板中尚未被发现。

And yet there is video footage of Scott Carroll brandishing 26 small fragments of the Sappho, those that ended up belonging to the Greens, a week earlier, on 7 February 2012.

然而，在此之前的 2012 年 2 月 7 日，也就是一周前，有视频记录显示 斯柯特·卡罗尔挥舞着 26 个属于格林家族的小片段，这些片段后来被确认是属于萨福手稿的一部分。