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Sappho: Girls
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Sappho headed a thiasos, a school for girls, although exactly what kind of school is not certain. Some argue it was a finishing school for girls, while others believe that the thiasoi were
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Sappho -- Psappho grew up on Lesbos, a commercial island where women were allowed greater freedom than in Attica. Sappho started her own school for girls, in which they learned the art of writing lyric poetry from one of its greatest masters -- Sappho herself.
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Contemporary sexual morality would condemn Sappho out of hand, but the ancients called her "divine Sappho". Sexual relationships between student and teacher that involved mutual consent were actually considered in a positive light. Learning intimacy from an experienced adult was considered beneficial for the young and a significant part oftheir education. Sappho would not have been so well thought of if the girls she taught hadn't grown to an admirable womanhood through her guidance.
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Sappho changes the tone from the girls's tearful emotional burst, to a tapestry of mixed lovingness, flowers' hues, the setting of love . . . . this is what you have to remember. Think not of an unknown future, but a beautiful past, which is good psychological counseling indeed. The tuning of this personal interchange between the two women, so simply put in direct quoted speech fragments, gives not only a sense of reality of a living moment; but ... marks the closeness between the two women. Directly quoted speech is always alive, something Sappho had also learned from Homer, whose epics are more than half in direct speech.
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