SAPPHO and her brothers.

SAPPHO, ca. 630 B.C.-570 B.C.; HELLENISTIC Greek poetry; PAPYRUS manuscripts; GREEK poetry; HELLENISTIC Greek literature; POETRY appreciation

The article discusses a prayer and song written by Ancient Greek poet Sappho about her brother s Charaxus, who had travelled to Naucratis, Egypt. The lyric poem was uncovered on a Greek papyrus fragment, part of a collection first compiled by the Alexandrian library of the Ptolemies in Egypt in the third century BC.