sappho

Don't know about anybody else, but there are some allegedly authentic recreations of Sappho songs on Youtube.

I love Anne Carson's translations of Sappho but I always give the caveat that she takes a lot of liberties with Sappho when I recommend it to a friend.

The same way Alexander the Great or Telemachus or Sappho or any other ancient Mediterranean were not gay in the modern sense.

My sister, a summa cum laude classics major gratuate from Princeton, analyzed and translated previously unknown fragments of Sappho as her senior thesis.

I suspect that if you counted 1-2-3-4 to Sappho she'd just look at you funny and throw her lyre at you or something.

We'll never know what Sappho sounded like, though.

The article mentions that Sappho referenced the Athenians sending sacrifices to Crete but I can't find the fragment anywhere and I'm guessing it doesn't exist.

I think we've got as much to work on here as the poetry of Sappho - history is sometimes cruel with facts and denies us the nice clean resolution we all crave.

It's totally common to read in literature texts about a poet's works being set to music; I'm reading Donald Keene's book on post-Meiji Japanese literature and for at least one poet he mentions that his poems were popular enough that they were recited with music, and there's examples in Western literature, especially the Greeks like Sappho with lyric poetry.

Add in the palimpsest practice (which would not only impact situations like Saint Catherine's but would also cause a manuscript containing some pagan text to be overwritten with a Christian text—or in later centuries for a Christian text to be overwritten with an Islamic text) and it's entirely possible that somewhere there's a copy of Aristotle's Second book of Poetics or more of Sappho than we currently have.

Or as Sappho observed: “What is beautiful is good and what is good will soon be beautiful.” Well there goes the correlation/causation angle.

Nor is this even plausibly deniable as a "sappho and her friend" type accident on the author's part, since homosexuality is pretty explicitly (though euphemistically) referenced elsewhere in the book.

"Sapphic" and "Lesbian" originate from a poet, Sappho, residing on the Greek island of Lesbos, whose work was very...

"Sappho"/"sapphic" are fairly common self-descriptors among teens/twentysomethings on a few subcultural niches like Tumblr.

Pretty typical of classical greek translations, though, and sometimes it's necessary–see Sappho.

We would have the works of Sappho, for example.

I’d trade it all for more Sappho, and I’m a member of a minority group that could write my own What It’s Like to Be An X in America book.