Dear Alison,
we are hardly talking of a real human being, here. Why to bother: she is a
myth.
Best Regards, EP
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From: A.J. Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: Saffo/Catullo
> The ugliness or otherwise of male poets is something which never seems to
> be mentioned. Why so, I wonder?
>
> Sappho wrote at least one epithalameum - ok, I can't remember the spelling
> - and there is that poignant fragment about her daughter, which compares
> the child to a golden flower and swears she would not swap her for all the
> gold of Croesus. Which makes simplistic divisions between gay and
> heterosexual poems in Sappho's case somewhat peculiar, since the poetry
> suggests a fluidity of sexual identity.
>
> As for Sappho herself, who is to know? It seems a little impudent to draw
> a literal biographical gloss on the fragments we have.
>
> Best
>
>
> Alison
>
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