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Toward the end of the 20th century, though, some scholars began to reject the question of whether Sappho was a lesbian — Glenn Most wrote that Sappho herself "would have had no idea what people mean when they call her nowadays a homosexual", [147] André Lardinois stated that it is "nonsensical" to ask whether Sappho was a lesbian, [152] and ...
The style of Busey’s work is a fitting way to rectify its namesake’s historical legacy. In the hundreds of years after her death around 570 B.C.E., Sappho was often portrayed in art as ...
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.
Today, most of Sappho's poetry is lost. The two major sources of surviving fragments of Sappho are quotations in other ancient works, from a whole poem to as little as a single word; and fragments of papyrus, many of which were discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. [20] A few fragments survive on other materials, including parchment and potsherds ...
The 3rd century Christian martyr Saint Sebastian is one of the earliest known gay icons, [3] due to his depiction in artwork as a beautiful, agonised young man. [4] Historian Richard A. Kaye states that "Contemporary gay men have seen in Sebastian at once a stunning advertisement for homosexual desire (indeed, a homoerotic ideal), and a prototypical portrait of a tortured closet case."
Athenaeus notes how Sappho often praised Larichos for being a wine-pourer in the prytaneion at Mytilene; this wine-pouring may have been mentioned here. [112] Obbink also suggests that the opening lines originally contained a mention of the death of Sappho's father when she was young, which was the source of Ovid's anecdote at Heroides 15.61 ...
Willow Pill became the first openly transgender person to win a regular season of RuPaul's Drag Race in the United States. [444] L Morgan Lee became the first openly transgender person nominated for a Tony Award in an acting category; she was nominated for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Thought 1 in A Strange ...
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 .