Sappho Flashcards
1
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Author info, time period
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Greek poet, known as 10th muse
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Time period: 630 BCE
2
Q
Wrote about:
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Female relationships such as:
mother/daughter, friends, social group worshiping Aphrodite, sexual,- Rituals/customs in which women are separated from each other because they have married or have become too old to marry
3
Q
Birth place
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Island called Lesbos
4
Q
What happened to poetry
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Destroyed under Pope Gergory VII in 11th Century CE
Poetry was destroyed b/c went against Christian views on homosexuality and porography
