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The Midnight poem is a fragment of Greek lyric poetry preserved by the Alexandrian grammarian Hephaestion.[1] It is possibly by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, and is fragment 168 B in Eva-Maria Voigt's edition of her works. It is also sometimes known as PMG fr. adesp. 976 – that is, fragment 976 from Denys Page's Poetae Melici Graeci, not attributed by him to any author (fragmenta adespota). The poem, four lines describing a woman alone at night, is one of the best-known surviving pieces of Greek lyric poetry.[2] Long thought to have been composed by Sappho, it is one of the most frequently translated and adapted of the works ascribed to her.
- ^ Reiner & Kovacs 1993, p. 149
- ^ Clay 1970, p. 119