Status Updates From Archaic Greek Poetry: An An...

me voy a saltar lo último que son ditirambos y odas a ganadores de olimpiadas jeje :P

ya he leído la parte de Safo lo demás da igual

only Pindar left - embarrassingly, I am very unfamiliar with Pindar, despite his importance to archaic Greek poetry. We'll solve that rn

Fragmentary poets done - Sappho is indeed the best one and it's not even a competition (the tenth muse indeed). Anakreon is pretty fun too though ngl, as are quite a few of other poems here.

lowkey kind of quirky how much better Sappho is than all the others but that might just be survivor's bias speaking regrettably.

Read through Sappho's section and holy shit I think I genuinely did not get Sappho the first time I read her with only some context but compared to other Greek archaic poets (and maybe all ancient poetry) only Catullus gets close to being this modern and effective at expressing his emotions; fascinating glimpse, small as it is, into female socialization at the time too.