Sappho Scholarship Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
Edith Hall
‘Muses’
A
Plato calls her the 10th Muse.
2
Q
Longinus
A
’he is as blessed as a god’ is the most astonishing description of the physical effects of desire.
3
Q
Aristotle
A
The people of Lesbos honoured Sappho though she was a woman.
4
Q
Hallet
‘Young girls’
A
Sappho helped young girls adjust to the ‘coming of age’.
5
Q
Hallet
‘Desirability’
A
Her poems imply that women were concerned with their physical desirability.
6
Q
Karanika
‘Marriage’
A
Sappho deeply communicates female anxiety towards marriage.
7
Q
Stehle
‘Love’
A
Sappho does not see love as dominative but mutual.
8
Q
Du Bois
‘Women’
A
Sappho shows women to be the active agent in relationships.
9
Q
Poochigan
‘Desire’
A
Sappho presents desire as simultaneously violent and tender.
