From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15637 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, February 28 2025 Volume 14 : Number 15637 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Answer a few questions for a chance to win ["Starbucks Limited Edition" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:13:27 +0100 From: "Starbucks Limited Edition" Subject: Answer a few questions for a chance to win Answer a few questions for a chance to win http://seatcusion.ru.com/hgjFet925AlCe2EZ685rCfCzTes9l9v9BYbleNc9GXoYICNlJQ http://seatcusion.ru.com/VbZXLm0I861eZd9vhqGGw9tTkVWPRwTsqlx02R7DfAtu98n4pg text in which she composed her poems has long been the subject of scholarly debate; the most influential suggestions have been that she had some sort of educational or religious role, or wrote for the symposium. Sappho's poetry was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, and she was among the canon of Nine Lyric Poets most highly esteemed by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. Sappho's poetry is still considered extraordinary and her works continue to influence other writers. Beyond her poetry, she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women, with the English words sapphic and lesbian deriving from her name and that of her home island, respectively. Ancient sources Marble head of a woman with the nose broken off Head of a woman from the Glyptothek in Munich, possibly a copy of Silanion's fourth-century BC imaginative portrait of Sappho Modern knowledge of Sappho comes both from what can be inferred from her own poetry and from mentions of her in other ancient texts. Her poetry b which, with the exception of a single complete poem, survives only in fragments b is the only contemporary source for her life. The earliest surviving biography of Sappho dates to the late second or early third century AD, approximately eight centuries after her own lifetime; the next is the Suda, a tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia. Other sources that mention details of her life were written much closer to her own era, beginning in the fifth century BC; one of the earliest is Herodotus' account of the relationship between the Egyptian courtesan Rhodopis and Sappho's brother Charaxos. The information about her life recorded in ancient sources was derived from statements in her own poetry that ancient authors assumed were autobi ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15637 ***********************************************