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  2. Anactoria - Wikipedia

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    Anactoria (or Anaktoria; Ancient Greek: Ἀνακτορία) is a woman mentioned in the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho.Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, names Anactoria as the object of her desire in a poem numbered as fragment 16.

  3. Sappho 16 - Wikipedia

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    After setting out Sappho's definition of what beauty is, the poem moves into a more personal section, recalling the narrator's beloved, Anactoria. [18] The transition from the mythological example of Helen and Paris to the narrator's desire for Anactoria is missing, so it is not known what exactly reminded the narrator of her. [ 19 ]

  4. Wikipedia : Today's featured article/February 28, 2025

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    Anactoria is a woman mentioned in the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE. Sappho names Anactoria as the object of her desire in a poem numbered as fragment 16. Another of her poems, fragment 31, is traditionally called the "Ode to Anactoria", though no name appears in it. As ...

  5. Poetry of Sappho - Wikipedia

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    Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives. Only one poem is known to be complete; in some cases as little as a single word survives.

  6. Sappho: A New Translation - Wikipedia

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    Sappho: A New Translation is a 1958 book by Mary Barnard with a foreword by Dudley Fitts.Inspired by Salvatore Quasimodo's Lirici Greci (Greek Lyric Poets) and encouraged by Ezra Pound, with whom Barnard had corresponded since 1933, she translated 100 poems of the archaic Greek poet Sappho into English free verse.

  7. Wikipedia : Featured article candidates/Anactoria/archive1

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    This looks like another case in which he has copied from Wikipedia: our article in 2016 read "Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote a long poem in Poems and Ballads titled Anactoria, in which Sappho addresses Anactoria in imagery that includes sadomasochism, cannibalism, and dystheism"; Chrystal's book, published 2017, says "... Anactoria, in which ...

  8. Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the writing on Sappho by Algernon Swinburne, including Swinburne's poem Anactoria, Solomon believed Erinna to have been a companion of Sappho on Lesbos during the late 7th century BC (a common misconception at that time, possibly due to a fragment of Sappho's poetry mentioning "Eranna").

  9. Sappho - Wikipedia

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    Kalpis painting of Sappho by the Sappho Painter (c. 510 BC), currently held in the National Museum, Warsaw. Sappho (/ ˈ s æ f oʊ /; Greek: Σαπφώ Sapphṓ [sap.pʰɔ̌ː]; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.