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The term sapphism has been used since the 1890s, [8] and derives from Sappho, a Greek poet whose verses mainly focused on love between women and her own homosexual passions. [9] She was born on the Greek island Lesbos, which also inspired the term lesbianism. [10] [11] Sappho's work is one of the few ancient references to sapphic love.
Sappho 94, sometimes known as Sappho's Confession, [1] is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho. The poem is written as a conversation between Sappho and a woman who is leaving her, perhaps in order to marry, and describes a series of memories of their time together.
The modern debate on Sappho's sexuality began in the 19th century, with Welcker publishing, in 1816, an article defending Sappho from charges of prostitution and lesbianism, arguing that she was chaste [171] – a position that was later taken up by Wilamowitz at the end of the 19th and Henry Thornton Wharton at the beginning of the 20th ...
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.
Sapphic may refer to: . Sappho, Greek poet of the 7th century BC who wrote about her attraction to women . Sapphic stanza, a four line poetic form; Sapphism, an inclusive umbrella term for attraction or relationships between queer women—whether they identify as lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, non-binary or trans.
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Sappho asks the goddess to ease the pains of her unrequited love for this woman; [25] after being thus invoked, Aphrodite appears to Sappho, telling her that the woman who has rejected her advances will in time pursue her in turn. [26] The poem concludes with another call for the goddess to assist the speaker in all her amorous struggles.
A colophon at the end of fragment 56 of the papyrus shows that Sappho's Book I contained 1320 lines, or 330 stanzas. [7] Sappho's name is not preserved here; instead, the authorship of the fragments is established by the metre (Sapphic stanzas), dialect , and three overlaps with previously-known fragments attributed to Sappho. [4]