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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 so-called Sappho fresco depicts a woman holding a stylus and a tabula cerata-wax tablet-, wearing a palla together with gold-threaded hair and gold earrings. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. no. 9084.
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."
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.
A name like Sappho, he explained, would have signaled that the mailing list was for queer women without using a term like “gay” or “lesbian,” which would have drawn unwanted attention.
Sappho 16 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. [ a ] It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known from a second-century papyrus discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Here's what 40 celebrities who have been household names for 50+ years look like today versus in the 1970s—from iconic performers, like Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross, to acting legends, like ...
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