Posted on 06/25/2005 6:38:31 PM PDT by blam
Seems to have lost something in the translation... still isn't as beautiful as Song of Solomon.
LOL!
Always use sunscreen?
Odd. The snippets posted here don't sound that much different than the Song of Solomon.
Sappho at 80:
She ran a school to teach young women how to become good wives.
All the works of the ancient Greeks would have been lost had it not been for Islamic scholars. That is about the only positive thing to come from that religion.
This is propaganda, I do believe. Have to look up my source, but, IIRC - pure propaganda, and of the untrue sort. They bear their share of library burning. Most of the stuff we saved from the muslim east was really saved by the Byzantines, and only via the others later.
Didn't mean to catch you off guard. Just reacting to a few classics courses. Just the other day I heard that a Greek philosopher was the originator of the all men are like grass concept - here I was sure it was from a more 10th C BC source.
It's all a game to them, you are right.
Her poetry is better than a lot of the rest we have preserved.
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Wow, this thread is so old it could qualify for the GGG list on its own.
...lesbi forget...
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