Resumen de Sappho's kisses: biographical tradition and intertextuality in AP 5.246 and 5.236
The 6th-c. Byzantine poet Paulus Silentiarius aligned poems AP 5.246 and 5.236 through a system of allusions to Sappho, her poetry (particularly fr. 31), her biographical tradition, the mythical figure of Tantalus and the motif of the frustrated kiss. Paulus develops this motif out of the intersections of [Plato]¿s AP 5.78, Meleager¿s 5.171 and Rufinus¿ 5.14. Close reading of AP 5.246 and 5.236 and their intertextual echoes reveals the sophistication of his interaction with classical literature and with Sappho¿s Nachleben
