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FRAGMENT 57
What farm girl, garbed in fashions from the farm
And witless of the way
A hiked hem would display
Her ankles, captivates you with her charm?

- Translated by Aaron Poochigian





FRAGMENT 131
Atthis, you looked at what I was
And hated what you saw
And now, all in a flutter, chase
After Andromeda.

- Translated by Aaron Poochigian





FRAGMENT 68
] for me away from
] yet turned out to be
] her like gods
] sinful
] Andromeda
] blessed one
] way
] did not restrain excess
] Tyndarids
] gracious
] innocent no longer
] Megara



]
] playing
] for me harsh
]
]
]

- Translated by Anne Carson





FRAGMENT 133
Andromeda has a fine exchange

Sappho, why?
Aphrodite giver of blessings

- Translated by Anne Carson






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FARM FASHIONS.
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orn on her parents' olive farm outside Eresos, the town where also Sappho was born, Andromeda and Sappho grew up peripherally aware of each other, although they belonged to different classes (Sappho was an aristocrat while Andromeda was of a middle class - trader - family). After Sappho moved to Mytilene, Andromeda's family began making a fortune in the olive oil production and trade, becoming famous for their very pure, fine oil. They rose to great means and soon, Andromeda's family, too, minus her younger brother - who stayed behind to oversee the farm - moved to Mytilene where she and Sappho were reunited once more. Although Sappho looked down on Andromeda and her New Money ways, they still initiated a brief affair sometime before Sappho started her school, when Andromeda chose to sponsor her work, and once she began taking in students, Andromeda always found excuses to visit, although she neither played the lyre or composed songs. However, as her engagement to Simonides (Kerikles) was arranged, Sappho broke it off with Andromeda, something Andromeda took extremely personally.

That was how she eventually met Atthis, one of Sappho's students, a gawky, young girl of eighteen (Andromeda was in her mid-twenties), she was trying to get revenge, and despite severe protests from Sappho, Andromeda took Atthis for a lover. This would, for a long time, ruin the relation between Atthis and Sappho and only strain the relationship between Sappho and Andromeda even more - as during this time Andromeda cared for the younger girl in her rich household.