The Greek poet Sappho knew this even 2,600 years ago. Women are the objects of desire in her erotic poetry. These lines are a surviving fragment of a larger, lost poem, so what the poet might have ...
Ancient Greek women were defiant and established themselves as respected doctors, philosophers, and mathematicians in Greece thousands of years ago.
It consists of twelve stories or essays, and each one weaves a narrative around some item that has been lost to the world: the extinct Caspian tiger, an island that has sunk into the sea, a demolished ...
This University of Bristol research project aims to create a new critical edition of the famous Greek lyric poet Sappho, as well as of her contemporary, Alcaeus. This project aims to fulfil one of the ...
Apart from of course that she was an Ancient Greek poet, with a strong association to a small Aegean island. However, while presenting a new BBC Four documentary 'Sappho: Love & Life on Lesbos ...
The poet cannot tell her lover from “the bottom of it / how I feel” but gives it to them all the same. 4. He Seemed to Me Equal to the Gods by Sappho (translated by Anne Carson in 2002) Closely ...