Sappho

aesthetics is another relevant area of study. Grundy points to Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as a relevant parallel to Montagu’s experience, arguing it as a potential citation on Woolf’s part. More recently, Alison Winch’s article “‘Drinking a Dish of Tea With Sappho’: The Sexual Fantasies of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lord Byron” discusses Byron’s reported fascination with Montagu; he supposedly occupied her same Venetian house and later discovered and published previously lost love letters she…

American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, 108). This blame thrust upon Sappho by society is directly voiced by John Langely who declares “girls of fourteen are frequently wives in our Southern climes, where women mature early,” blaming her gender and ripe age for her sexual assault instead of her assailant. Through portraying Sappho as a Madonna figure, Hopkins discredits the perception of Sappho as a “single woman who becomes tainted by sexual scandal and thus read by others as…

Sappho lived during the sixth century BC on the island of Lesbos. There is very little that is to know about the life of Sappho, she is one of the greatest women of Greek lyrics, and through her work of both lyrics and narrative poems she focused on beauty and love. Catullus was a Latin poet from the late Roman Republic, his style of writing is mostly neoteric poetry. Sappho’s writings are softer and more feminine, she would express how passion, relationships and jealousy felt like. Her writings…

That she is described as "She the most fair/ of mortals, Helen..." (Sappho, 16.5-6) brings nothing new to the table. However the fact that her beauty is not once mentioned in an entire book of the Odyssey does add weight to the conversation. The closest thing to Helen 's beauty discussed in Book Four happens to be her divine…

body, and the soul. Aphrodite shows how desire fogs the mind, keeping Sappho from seeing one’s true beauty. In Sappho’s Ode to Aphrodite, beauty is where desire remains satisfactory for one as opposed to Plato’s Symposium, where desire leads to an understanding of true beauty, the beauty of the body, the mind, and the soul. The concept of love presented by Diatoma is able to reach the true understanding of beauty, whereas in Sappho there is a constant blur of desire from wanting only the…

disrespect of women. Sappho used the treatment of women as a subject in several of her poems, while Homer’s writing subconsciously echoed his culture’s attitudes towards genders. The poems from Ancient Greece generally reflected how Greek women were merely objects and men were expected to be masculine; however, some of the poems contradicted their gender roles suggesting that not everyone was content with the patriarchy. The objectification of women was common in Greek literature. Sappho felt…

rape, Sappho is marked with the “lack of virtue” and “illegitimacy” that Langley seeks to capitalize on for his own satisfaction. The fundamental question that the novel asks us to consider, relative to race, class, and gender identity, is how a woman like Sappho can break from the overdetermined black female identity that dominant white, patriarchal culture assigns her and instead serve as an alternative, transgressive, true/New Woman. While readers are initially encouraged to read Sappho…

was an interest in establishing identity. Arguments: The development of poleis and ethnes as well as more defined social stratification within poleis produced a society interested in self-identity. Lyric poetry in turn was about personal subjects —Sappho used poetry to express her identity by describing her personal feelings and opinions— and referenced these changes—Theognis’ poetry attempted to reject the changing government and rise of the nouveau riche by expressing the virtues…

The Palace of Knossos- The Palace of Knossos was a place built on the island of Crete by King Minos around 1900 BC It was an elaborate place with five stories containing hundreds of rooms, plumbing, brightly colored paintings called frescoes, and thousands of storage jars. This palace was where large gatherings were held, things were stored, and the king lived. The Palace of Knossos is important when studying Greece History because it gives us insight into the lives of the Minoans. The…

aspirations of the warriors for glory, the importance of Hector and Andromache’s farewell represents important aspects of life lost in the wake of the war. Elements related to the theme of goodbyes can be seen through other Greek poets, in particular Sappho, who provides one such descriptive narrative from an individual in her 31st fragment. The stark contrast Homer forms in his scene in the Iliad develops an uncertainty regarding his personal views on the Trojans, and ultimately challenges his…