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Based on her (Aphrodite's)characterization in Iliad, she is not the goddess you would pick to be your comrade in arms. It may be that what Sappho is doing in this song deliberately rejecting the old Homeric values. In effect she is here announcing a different kind of battle and a different kind of Aphrodite. one that perhaps reflects aspects of the goddess's original status as a powerful earth mother deity.
— Sep 11, 2025 01:35AM
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that is because they are somehow expecting Helen to be (as indeed she is in Homer and elsewhere) a beautiful object. In sappho's account, she is a subject, not an object. She happens to be beautiful, to be sure, but she is an active subject in pursuit of what she desires, what she regards as the most beautiful thing on the earth.
— Sep 29, 2025 12:36PM
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بچه ها سفو رو میگفتن ازدواج کرده بوده با یه مردی به اسم "kerkylas, who came from the island of Andros"
که خب باعث می‌شه تاریخ‌دان ها و مترجم ها خیلی بیشتر روی این پافشاری کنن که لزبین نبوده. بعدا scholarها به این فکرمی‌افتن که چقدر این اسم عجیب و مشکوک به‌نظر می‌آد و احتمالا ساختگیه چون ترجمه می‌شه Dicky-boy from the isle of men. (معنی اسم یارو مترادف penis بوده)
— Sep 04, 2025 05:13AM
که خب باعث می‌شه تاریخ‌دان ها و مترجم ها خیلی بیشتر روی این پافشاری کنن که لزبین نبوده. بعدا scholarها به این فکرمی‌افتن که چقدر این اسم عجیب و مشکوک به‌نظر می‌آد و احتمالا ساختگیه چون ترجمه می‌شه Dicky-boy from the isle of men. (معنی اسم یارو مترادف penis بوده)
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Those who adopt the definition "gay" or "lesbian", however, soon discover that mainstream culture offers homosexuals (unlike heterosexuals) no history or sense of forbears.
— Sep 03, 2025 03:37AM
