Sappho, Selene and Phenomenology

   
φάεννον εἶδοσ

Late one night this week the moon passed between Aldebaran and the Pleiades leaving them and the Hyades invisible to our unaided gaze, the moon bright, blinding, as we stood at the patio door, shivering, toes shy of the snow, and then back into the lighted, warm room.

Wm. Carlos Williams: flame-white disc as the appearance of the sun at night in New England or on Lesbos.

Anne Carson 2002, has the Psappho [Ψάπφω] fragment (itself known only as a quote)  as 34 and it can be seen here as page 4.

Compare: Mary Barnard, 1958, fragment 24.

Contra: Late Husserl and his Heidegger on the phenomena in a world after that celestial world was made known to us, adumbrated for us, by a Galileo and a Kepler and a Newton.  Note the influence of Heidegger on Husserl after the loss of a son in the war and the loss of Reinach (flares, moonlight and trench warfare.)