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I’ve been neglecting this book for its dryness.

Everything must be added to 47

Confuses a dower with a “widow’s dowery” (not a thing).

Misidentifies “habiliments” as part of the dress and not the decorative edge of a hood and/or veil.

Yet more incestuous desire from Sappho to her daughter.

Well Sappho is now a rapist. So that’s interesting.

Demeter is made into a partial moon Goddess.

The Hittites are mentioned when the Hittites had fallen more than 700 years previous.

Fascinatingly, Jong chooses to utilize a poem that mentions Anactoria, scrub her name from it, and make it about her daughter and Alcaeus.

The book has now had two instances of the word “retarded.” I’m not offended as they are used in the literal, dictionary sense, not the slur, but puzzled as it’s such a modern way to describe the phenomenon of historical cognitive disabilities.

“The laws of god”