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What does /lit/ think about Sappho's body of work?

>> No.16052993

Too fat.

>> No.16053018

>>16052993
It's like 30 pages, wouldn't say it's fat.

>> No.16053066

>>16053018
Ok, oily then

>> No.16053081 [SPOILER] 
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hnnnnnnggggggggg

>> No.16053089

>>16052988
not real
invented by some coomer greek larper
or after the fact by a feminist

tldr; cringe

>> No.16054181

>>16053089
based omphalosist

>> No.16054245
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>>16053089
>Some say there are nine Muses. How thoughtless! Look at Sappho of Lesbos; she makes a tenth.
>T. Plato

>> No.16054344

I never really considered it, but what does Sappho write about? How to tongue punch vaginas?

>> No.16054384

>>16054245
so she was litterally a myth like the muses? good to know.

>> No.16054388

>>16054344
There's literally no cute yuri action in her drivel

>> No.16054522

>like a sweet-apple
>turning red
>high
>on the tip
>of the topmost branch.
>forgotten by pickers.


>not forgotten—

>they couldn’t reach it.
- sappho
(^^^^^)
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>> No.16054591

>>16054344
That we know of? We have no idea. All we have a fragments. There's a love poem that partially survives in which she describes her love for a person, but it's ambiguous if she's talking about a woman, or the man the woman is talking to. However, Sappho puts a pronoun in the feminine, which is viewed as evidence that her (unrequited) love is for the woman talking to the man.

But, the ancients loved her, and gave her an esteemed place alongside Homer and Hesiod as the founders of Greek literature (Homer the Epic, Hesiod the pastoral, her the love poem). Her lesbianism is mostly attested from the ancients, and her birthplace of Lesbos is where we get "lesbian" from. She was also part of the common culture, as a common phrase/idiom/etc was to relate someone to being a man in love with Sappho (who for obvious reasons rejected the advances of women), implying that the person in question was doing something fruitless.

>> No.16054606

>only fragments
>translated poetry
She's a meme pushed by women in classics.

>> No.16054610

>>16052988
Fragmented, to say the least.

>> No.16054622

>>16054245
>Lesbos
LOL

>> No.16055307

Made bad use of really good meters mostly. I never really liked any of her shit but I hate women so I'm very biased.

>> No.16055315
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>>16052988
>Sappho was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos.

>> No.16055322

>>16054344
Love

>> No.16055323

>>16054622
>>16055315
Great minds think alike.

>> No.16055347

She was the head of cult of Aphrodite for women only. Of course they tongued each other. Implying hot boys in palaestras did not touch each other. It was heavily hinted multiple times.

>> No.16055458

>>16055347
Are any books about these cults?

>> No.16055547

>>16055458
A palaestra is something like a gym where they learn to box or wrestle.

>> No.16055704

>>16052988
safada

>> No.16055713

>>16054245
>Lesbos
>kek

>> No.16055736

>>16055713
>>16055315
>>16054622
this board is not as well-read as I thought it was

>> No.16055747

>>16055736
>In English and most other European languages, including Greek, the term lesbian is commonly used to refer to homosexual women. This use of the term derives from the poems of Sappho, who was born in Lesbos and who wrote with powerful emotional content directed toward other women.

>> No.16055789

>>16055747
>you're telling me the Greeks used a trojan horse when they infiltrated Troy??
>KEK! What a coincidence LOL

>> No.16055797

>>16055736
>>16055747
>>16055789
it's called irony, samefag

>> No.16055861

>>16055789
>You're telling me the Trojans used Trojan condoms when they buttfucked one another??
>KEK! What a coincidence LOL

>> No.16055910

>>16052988
More like what do you think about Sappho's body PERIOD uwu

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>>16055910
I would.

>> No.16055980

i dont like poetry in general. Reading it in translation is doubly unappealing.

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>>16055797
I was responding to teh guy who responded to me