It was originally part of a book created in the sixth century AD. The poem was one of a group (Sappho 92–97) preserved on a parchment, P. As with other poems by Sappho such as poem 16 and 94, memory is a major theme. The first twenty lines describe an imaginary scene in which an unnamed woman is struck by grief remembering an absent companion, Atthis the remaining 17 lines, possibly originally a separate poem, reflects more generally on the foolishness of trying to compare human and divine beauty. 37 lines of the fragment are preserved on a 6th-century parchment. Sappho 96 is a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. 9722, the parchment on which Sappho 96 is preserved.
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