CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - John Donne, Lefkada, Carpe Diem
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Cla 219 women in antiquity: h schele. **midterm, 10/16 for 1h in the classroom no lectures afterwards. Lectures and readings, term list everything talked about in class! Definitions, short/long answers, passage and image analysis (re)constructions of sappho. No manuscript from sappho, only quotes from other authors and recently found papyrus fragments. Sappho is a lesbian literally (from island of lesbos in greece) and sexually (i. e. , from what can be gleaned from her poems: homo-erotic desire towards other women evident in her words. Thus the term lesbian in its modern use derived its meaning from that fact. Late 19th c. start to use the term this way. Sapphic is the adjective form to denote female homo-eroticism in poetry. Lesbiazein ~ to act like a lesbian (german?: ancient meaning to give oral sex. Lesbos island associated to female homosexual love: which is taboo in ancient times.
