The Queen's Seizure and the Re-fired King: Sappho 31 in Canonical Josephus is a philological paper by Lee Sharks locating the Sappho 31 apparatus in the uncontested Greek Josephus for the first time, at two loci in complementary polarity. The forward realization is Antiquities 11.234–241, Josephus's retelling of Esther's audience from Septuagint Addition D, where the queen's first-person report reproduces the poem's correlative syntax (ὡς γὰρ εἶδόν σε … εὐθύς), the sensory catalogue distributes across the dyad with the fire migrated to the sovereign's face, collapse functions as the gate of reception, and revival arrives as ἀναζωπυρήσασα, re-fired. The inverted realization is Bellum Judaicum 1.436–444, Herod after Mariamme, a channel-for-channel mirror in which the king is muzzled by desire, speech floods toward the corpse, and the beloved's death is denied by the inflammation of eros. A complete census shows ἀναζωπυρέω occurs six times in canonical Josephus, five at reactivation-of-occluded-life joints, the verb entering from Genesis 45:27. The paper's sequence analysis establishes an order-invariant spine across fragment 31, Addition D, and Antiquities 11 — sight-exchange, fire, jolt, voice-loss, death-adjacent collapse, reactivation by another, voice-retry, relapse — and shows Josephus restoring two stations toward the poem beyond his source. A pre-registered lexeme scan's null result is disclosed as a granularity finding. The paper repositions earlier Slavonic and Revelation locations as extensions of an attested intra-corpus pattern.