Random Quotes Flashcards

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What quote shows sapphos longing for death

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Honestly I want to die

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

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I am on the point of death

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

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I cannot weave my web

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4
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What quote shows sappho a poet disarmed

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I can no longer speak

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5
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What quote shows the positive side of love as it calms Sappho

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You sooth my soul which was burning with desire

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What quote shows the reminiscence of love in a positive way

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

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What quote shows Sappho in love with a boy

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I am smitten by a boy

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What epithet do we get for Aphrodite

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Aphrodite goddess of the embroidered throne

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What hyperbole do we get that is Homeric influence

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Helen the most beautiful women on earth

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10
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What quote shows the epithalamia and shows male desire (direct address to groom)

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May they sing if your delights

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11
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What quote shows adultry

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Return to his long lost love

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What quote shows Sappho being left possibly for marriage

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Honestly I want to die. Weeping she was leaving me

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What quote is a humorous line from an epithalamia

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The doorkeeper has size 27 feet

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14
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Who js the god of marriage

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Hymenaeus

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15
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What quote has a sexual inuendo of come

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Coke to me come to me and pour gracefully

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16
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What quote from an epithalamia shows the pleasure experienced all night after a wedding

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May the maidens sing all night long

17
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What quote shows signs of fertility and could be yonic

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Adorned with violets

18
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What quote shows the biological symptoms of orgasm describes as live

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

19
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What quote shows the power and force of love could be phalic

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

20
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What quote shows the fear that women have as sex is linked to war

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Like ares bigger by far than the biggest man

21
Q

What yore shows the physical power love has over the body

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Love which loosens the limbs once again shakes me

22
Q

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

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

23
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what quote shows that sappho believes you need wealth and virtue for happiness

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

24
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what bee quote shows that sappho feels love isnt for her

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neither the honey nor the bee is for me

25
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what quote about aphrodite shows that it is her favour that gives you love

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aphrodite has honoured you above all others

26
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what quote about acheron is a reference to mythology

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i long to see the banks of the acheron

27
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what quote about the house of hades and dim shades is a reference to mythology

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

28
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what quote shows sapphos view on men and that its the inside that counts

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

29
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what quote shows the fiery feeling of love

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a delicate fire runs beneath my skin

30
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what quote has two pronouns close together and has sexual undertones

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while desire circles you, my darling