on 14/7/01 10:18 AM, Robin Hamilton at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> One of them could well have been a man, at least for one magical, bacchic
>> evening. Sappho *did* have a daughter.
>
> Really? Are you sure of this?
>
> First I heard of it.
She was called Cleis "who is like a golden flower" - assuming, of course,
the fragment is "true". What do we actually know of Sappho? Fragments and
speculation.
Cheers,
Jill
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