Scholarship

Question 1

McGinn

Answer 1

Ovid is a ‘signal critic of Augustus’

Question 2

Gill

Answer 2

Alcibiades is a warning for what happens if you don’t pass love of bodies.
Socrates is already acsending the latter.

Question 3

Ferrari

Answer 3

Platonic love is selfish

Question 4

Motto

Answer 4

Women in Seneca rival men in vices

Question 5

Gloyn

Answer 5

Seneca and Paulina have a ‘shared understanding’

Question 6

Konstan

Answer 6

Seneca’s primary objective is to ‘help people rid themselves of passions that are destructive’

Question 7

O’Higgins

Answer 7

Sappho’s physical description in Loeb 31 ‘mirror homeric heroes’. Loss of voice is a ‘critical loss for a poet’

Question 8

Elbert

Answer 8

Sappho invites Aphrodite to be her summachos because pethlio and seduction are more powerful than the military

Question 9

Willomitz

Answer 9

Sappho is a school teacher and is not a lesbian, she is ok when women leave to get married

Question 10

Poochigian

Answer 10

112 Sappho loves the girl

Question 11

Irwin

Answer 11

31 is an orgasm ‘greener than grass’ translates to ‘wetter than grass’