RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sappho 31, Sappho 16, Minor Places In Arda
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Estimated that we only have 1% of all her works in physical form. Her poems are numbered and originally not written in english. Island of lesbos has different dialects compared to that in greece. Language issue caused it to lose some popularity. All of her work was preserved in the library of alexandria which later got destroyed by a fire, but other conspiracies exist. Switch in roman empire (paganism to christianity); christian emperors didn"t like. Believed that sex is sinful, only right in context of marriage and reproduction. One of the only complete poems we have of sappho, most fragmented. Person speaking is appealing to aphrodite"s trickery (they need something or else their spirit will be in misery) Seems to be a positive relationship between sappho and aphrodite if ever before you listened (sappho called out to aphrodite before and she"s responded)
