The Memory in Herinna’s Fr.4 and Sappho’s Fr.94

While we cannot deny the relationship of influence, inspiration, or intertextuality that has been described between the work of Sappho and Herinna, we can say that it is not as close as some once suggested. We present here the study of a thematic and rhetorical element that is present in two fragments by these authors, and that has led several authors, especially Rauk (1989) and Rayor (2005), to read them as parallels, not interpreting them together, but in a complementary way from a common element that they seem to identify in both authors. We are referring to memory, which appears in both poems directly in the form of a flashback and is explicitly invoked. These studies support a series of approaches that have generally been accepted but which, according to the new annotated editions of Herinna (2003) and Sappho (2017 and 2021), should be reviewed with some aspects left to expand on and better outline.