Sappho Digital

The Literary Reception of Sappho in the German-Speaking World

This website gathers information on the literary reception of Sappho in the German-speaking world – from its beginnings to the present.

About the Project
1,061
Reception Testimonies
580
Authors
264
Analysed Texts
10,431
Intertextual Relations
1494 – 2026
Time Span
409,752
TriplesA triple is essentially a simple machine-readable statement consisting of subject, predicate, and object. Here, these statements refer to the literary reception of Sappho – for example, to works and authors.

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Disclaimer: The raw data is fully annotated with English-language labels and structured for broad reuse. The website was originally intended primarily for German-speaking users; this is an experimental AI-translated English version.

Reception Testimonies
Reception Testimonies
Catalogue of German-language literary reception testimonies about Sappho
Statistics
Statistics
Sample statistical analyses of the literary reception of Sappho
Network Visualization
Network Visualization
Network visualization of all data
Data
Data
Freely available data on GitHub