Random Quotes

Question 1

What quote shows sapphos longing for death

Answer 1

Honestly I want to die

Question 2

What quote shows Sappho is about to die - maybe petit mort / orgasm

Answer 2

I am on the point of death

Question 3

What quote shows sapphos loss of self - cannot do an easy task she would know well

Answer 3

I cannot weave my web

Question 4

What quote shows sappho a poet disarmed

Answer 4

I can no longer speak

Question 5

What quote shows the positive side of love as it calms Sappho

Answer 5

You sooth my soul which was burning with desire

Question 6

What quote shows the reminiscence of love in a positive way

Answer 6

You will remember what we did when we were young. Many beautiful things

Question 7

What quote shows Sappho in love with a boy

Answer 7

I am smitten by a boy

Question 8

What epithet do we get for Aphrodite

Answer 8

Aphrodite goddess of the embroidered throne

Question 9

What hyperbole do we get that is Homeric influence

Answer 9

Helen the most beautiful women on earth

Question 10

What quote shows the epithalamia and shows male desire (direct address to groom)

Answer 10

May they sing if your delights

Question 11

What quote shows adultry

Answer 11

Return to his long lost love

Question 12

What quote shows Sappho being left possibly for marriage

Answer 12

Honestly I want to die. Weeping she was leaving me

Question 13

What quote is a humorous line from an epithalamia

Answer 13

The doorkeeper has size 27 feet

Question 14

Who js the god of marriage

Answer 14

Hymenaeus

Question 15

What quote has a sexual inuendo of come

Answer 15

Coke to me come to me and pour gracefully

Question 16

What quote from an epithalamia shows the pleasure experienced all night after a wedding

Answer 16

May the maidens sing all night long

Question 17

What quote shows signs of fertility and could be yonic

Answer 17

Adorned with violets

Question 18

What quote shows the biological symptoms of orgasm describes as live

Answer 18

And sweat pours over me and a tremour siezes me all over

Question 19

What quote shows the power and force of love could be phalic

Answer 19

Love shook my soul like a wind buffeting oak tree on a mountain

Question 20

What quote shows the fear that women have as sex is linked to war

Answer 20

Like ares bigger by far than the biggest man

Question 21

What yore shows the physical power love has over the body

Answer 21

Love which loosens the limbs once again shakes me

Question 22

What quote is a simple line but translated could have sexual undertones

Answer 22

I am greener than grass - translated to I am moister than grass

Question 23

what quote shows that sappho believes you need wealth and virtue for happiness

Answer 23

wealth without virtue can be a harmful neighbor
a blend of the two however is the height of happiness

Question 24

what bee quote shows that sappho feels love isnt for her

Answer 24

neither the honey nor the bee is for me

Question 25

what quote about aphrodite shows that it is her favour that gives you love

Answer 25

aphrodite has honoured you above all others

Question 26

what quote about acheron is a reference to mythology

Answer 26

i long to see the banks of the acheron

Question 27

what quote about the house of hades and dim shades is a reference to mythology

Answer 27

you will fade into the house of hades, you will wander among the dim shades

Question 28

what quote shows sapphos view on men and that its the inside that counts

Answer 28

a handsome man is only good to look at, a good man will become handsome

Question 29

what quote shows the fiery feeling of love

Answer 29

a delicate fire runs beneath my skin

Question 30

what quote has two pronouns close together and has sexual undertones

Answer 30

while desire circles you, my darling