Motifs

… in the reception testimonies and Sappho fragments analysed as examples.

For a hierarchical view, see the Vocabulary. More information on the exemplary analysis can be found here. Statistical analyses are compiled here; a network visualization of all data is available here.

  • afterglow/evening glow (2 Occurrences)
  • aging (7 Occurrences)
  • anger (4 Occurrences)
  • animal (3 Occurrences)
  • appearance (3 Occurrences)
  • apple (4 Occurrences)
  • apple tree (4 Occurrences)
  • art (2 Occurrences)
  • banishment (2 Occurrences)
  • Baum (2 Occurrences)
  • beauty (24 Occurrences)
  • bee (4 Occurrences)
  • being the same age (5 Occurrences)
  • bird (16 Occurrences)
  • bitterness (4 Occurrences)
  • black (2 Occurrences)
  • bliss (7 Occurrences)
  • cheek (4 Occurrences)
  • chorus/choir (2 Occurrences)
  • cicada (2 Occurrences)
  • clear tone (12 Occurrences)
  • cloud (4 Occurrences)
  • comparison to a god (14 Occurrences)
  • crocus (2 Occurrences)
  • cult (31 Occurrences)
  • cup/jug (8 Occurrences)
  • dance (4 Occurrences)
  • dawn/red sky (2 Occurrences)
  • death (26 Occurrences)
  • death wish (14 Occurrences)
  • deification (7 Occurrences)
  • desire (17 Occurrences)
  • dew (9 Occurrences)
  • doubt (3 Occurrences)
  • dove (5 Occurrences)
  • dream (18 Occurrences)
  • emotion and affect motifs (2 Occurrences)
  • envy (3 Occurrences)
  • Erotik (5 Occurrences)
  • eye (8 Occurrences)
  • fame (4 Occurrences)
  • farewell/abandonment (10 Occurrences)
  • fashion (22 Occurrences)
  • female community (3 Occurrences)
  • fire (24 Occurrences)
  • flower (23 Occurrences)
  • foot (8 Occurrences)
  • forgetting (5 Occurrences)
  • fragmentariness (8 Occurrences)
  • friendship (4 Occurrences)
  • garden (2 Occurrences)
  • goat (5 Occurrences)
  • gold (19 Occurrences)
  • grass (4 Occurrences)
  • grief (2 Occurrences)
  • guilt (3 Occurrences)
  • hatred (2 Occurrences)
  • heart (4 Occurrences)
  • honey (5 Occurrences)
  • hope (3 Occurrences)
  • humanity (3 Occurrences)
  • hyacinth (2 Occurrences)
  • insomnia (2 Occurrences)
  • island (5 Occurrences)
  • ivory (4 Occurrences)
  • jealousy (4 Occurrences)
  • kiss (2 Occurrences)
  • lament (7 Occurrences)
  • last song (2 Occurrences)
  • laurel (5 Occurrences)
  • Licht (3 Occurrences)
  • lip (4 Occurrences)
  • lock of hair (6 Occurrences)
  • loneliness (17 Occurrences)
  • longing/yearning (8 Occurrences)
  • love (11 Occurrences)
  • lyra (5 Occurrences)
  • lyre (10 Occurrences)
  • madness (6 Occurrences)
  • Marmor (3 Occurrences)
  • marriage ceremony (2 Occurrences)
  • memory (12 Occurrences)
  • mirror (2 Occurrences)
  • moon (24 Occurrences)
  • morality/decency (7 Occurrences)
  • morning (7 Occurrences)
  • Mund (2 Occurrences)
  • natural phenomena (2 Occurrences)
  • nature (32 Occurrences)
  • nectar (4 Occurrences)
  • new Sappho (7 Occurrences)
  • night (32 Occurrences)
  • nightingale (3 Occurrences)
  • nudity (5 Occurrences)
  • pain (12 Occurrences)
  • pastoralism (7 Occurrences)
  • Pektis (2 Occurrences)
  • physicality/embodiment (21 Occurrences)
  • Pleiades (5 Occurrences)
  • poison (3 Occurrences)
  • pomegranate (2 Occurrences)
  • prayer (15 Occurrences)
  • purple (17 Occurrences)
  • radiance/gleam (9 Occurrences)
  • religion (3 Occurrences)
  • revenge (3 Occurrences)
  • rock/cliff (15 Occurrences)
  • rose (26 Occurrences)
  • Schlaf (17 Occurrences)
  • sea (26 Occurrences)
  • seafaring/navigation (13 Occurrences)
  • seashore/coast (11 Occurrences)
  • silence (5 Occurrences)
  • silence/muteness (7 Occurrences)
  • silver (2 Occurrences)
  • singing (23 Occurrences)
  • sky (9 Occurrences)
  • snake (2 Occurrences)
  • soft couch (3 Occurrences)
  • speechlessness (5 Occurrences)
  • spring (8 Occurrences)
  • star (15 Occurrences)
  • storm (5 Occurrences)
  • sun (12 Occurrences)
  • swan (3 Occurrences)
  • sweet voice (9 Occurrences)
  • tear (13 Occurrences)
  • thunderstorm (9 Occurrences)
  • tongue (8 Occurrences)
  • uncertainty (4 Occurrences)
  • violet (7 Occurrences)
  • violet wreath (2 Occurrences)
  • violet-bosomed (4 Occurrences)
  • wave (24 Occurrences)
  • wedding (22 Occurrences)
  • white (2 Occurrences)
  • wind (17 Occurrences)
  • wine (4 Occurrences)
  • worry (8 Occurrences)
  • wreath/garland (17 Occurrences)
  • youth (10 Occurrences)