on 7/13/01 9:42 PM, Jill Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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
Yes, and is there any (grammatical) reason why Frag. 31 can't be read as
allewding to a homosocial occasion?
Just wondering,
Candice
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