Hymn to Venus (Sappho)

by Sappho

For works with similar titles, see A Hymn to Venus.

English-language translations of Ποικιλόθρον᾽ ἀθάνατ᾽ Ἀφρόδιτα include:

• "An Hymn to Venus, from the Greek of Sappho", translated by Ambrose Philips, in Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and Other Original Poems, With Translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho (1748)
• "Hymn to Venus", translated by John Herman Merivale, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
• "A Hymn to Venus", translated by Roby Datta, in Echoes from East and West (1909)
• "To the Queen of Love", translated by Arthur S. Way, in Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
• Several editions and translations, edited by Edwin Marion Cox, in The Poems of Sappho (1924):
  • the Greek text
  • "Immortal Aphrodite of the shimmering throne…", prose translation by Edwin Marion Cox
  • "Shimmering-throned immortal Aphrodite…", poetic translation by Edwin Marion Cox
  • "A Hymn to Venus", translated by Ambrose Philips (1741)
  • "Glittering-throned undying Aphrodite…", translated by John Addington Symonds (19th cent.)
  • "Splendour-throned Queen, immortal Aphrodite…", translated by Edwin Arnold (1865)
  • "Beautiful-throned, immortal Aphrodite…", translated by T. W. Higginson (1871)