How To Use Sappho In A Sentence
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The poems are supposed to be by Sappho, but they are actually of doubtful authenticity.
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The sapphic stanza, which Sappho uses and may have invented, has a strong caesura, as do her other lines.
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As it is written by the prophetesses of ancient times, the original followers of the Lesbite Code of Sappho were scattered to the four corners of the earth, divided into 12 tribes, led into exile by the high priestesses.
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She also shows how Sappho was identified by Victorian feminists with the cause of suffering women, serving simultaneously as model and as exemplary victim.
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Bantock's setting of his wife's dilations on Sappho was supremely seductive to the Edwardian England of its day.
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Helle Merete Brix is a journalist, author, lecturer and editor of Sappho. dk, Denmark’s newest web magazine on free speech, islamism and antisemitism.
Danish publisher hopes to publish The Jewel of Medina
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Reviewers and critics paid Swinburne the compliment of identifying him with Sappho and praising his talent as Sapphic.
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Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho.
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Some time around the ninth century, Sappho's nine books were irrecoverably lost.
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Often the greatest poets, as Sappho herself, are represented as having no more than a blind and instinctive apprehension of the supersensual beauty which is shining through the flesh, and which is the real object of desire.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
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In one of the longest tales, recalling the camp appeal of 'Xena: Warrior Princess, ' Sappho and Aesop discover a separatist commune of Amazons.
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Sappho is standing on the cliff face, ready to do the deed which legend has wrongly attributed to her.
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Calling all female images in all Khmer temples “celestial dancers” and “apsaras” contradicts a considerable amount of research on this site, as well as the work of Trudy Jacobsen, Peter Sharrock, Miranda Shaw, Sappho Marchal, and many other scholars.
Angkor Wat Interactive on National Geographic | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
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Melissa and Franny; Marilyn and Sappho; Circe and Ayesha and Suzette.
ON CATS
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Sappho's pre-eminent reputation as an artist of lyricism and love is based on only three complete poems, 63 complete single lines and up to 264 fragments.
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The word physiologic implies something healthy and normal, but Sappho's poems are not healthy and normal; they are abnormal, they are pathologic.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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She turns a card-carrying sister of Sappho into a man-hungry nympho.
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I'm hoping this Dancing-with-the-Scars dark fairy tale--for it feels like Aronofsky has gone back to the fabulistic Germanic roots of the original Swan Lake narrative--does not really mean the only fix for good girls is just a dose of self-stimulation with a bit of Sappho and the boss on the side which rebounds on us anyway, in the end.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Black Swan , Or Letting Your Inner Bad Girl Out
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Most of it is a defence of Sappho's chastity, which some German had denied, and I can assure you the passion with which these two gentlemen argued, the learning they displayed, the prodigious ingenuity with which they disputed the use of some implement which looked to me for all the world like a hairpin astounded me; especially when the door opened and Professor Hobkin himself appeared.
Monday or Tuesday
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Susan C. Jarratt's article, ‘Sappho's Memory,’ offers an exploration of the relationship between gender and memory in pre-classical and classical Greece and Rome by exploring the spaces in which and about which Sappho wrote.
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Melissa and Franny; Marilyn and Sappho; Circe and Ayesha and Suzette.
ON CATS
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Aeolic, Sappho's dialect, didn't have initial rough breathings, so the article would be "o," not "ho.
Sappho in Greek! And did the Romans "invade" Britain?
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The Daughters of Sappho kept a vigil in front of the courthouse.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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As long as we're upping the stakes here, I sure wish somebody would return the Library of Alexandria that I loaned out, along with the complete works of Archilochus and Sappho.
Making Light: Universal Lending Library Amnesty Thread
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In her book, ‘The Sappho Companion’, Margaret Reynolds says there's something strange, remote and ultimately unrecoverable about Sappho's writing.
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But I look at some of the Greats with a capital G of the past — take Sappho (who has come up in another conversation), who wrote in an Aeolic dialect of ancient Greek — in an island vernacular — for what must have been the tiniest of audiences by our standards.
Anxiety, a rant in three fits : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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I'm hoping this Dancing-with-the-Scars dark fairy tale -- for it feels like Aronofsky has gone back to the fabulistic Germanic roots of the original Swan Lake narrative -- does not really mean the only fix for good girls is just a dose of self-stimulation with a bit of Sappho and the boss on the side which rebounds on us anyway, in the end.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Black Swan , Or Letting Your Inner Bad Girl Out
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Also, thanks to Alun of archaeoastronomy for letting me know about this program on Sappho.
Homer and Sappho
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The original version seems to have included some poems, which may explain why Sappho, an ancient Greek poet from whom the term sapphic is derived, is mentioned on the cover although none of her work appears inside.
Paperback Cover Cavalcade 5
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In the phrase, borrowed from Sappho , that the social scientists use to sum up the common perception, what is beautiful is good.