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Sappho: Women
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Sappho was an occasional subject for the "historical" painters of Victorian England, particularly Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. Sappho was probably chosen as the subject of these paintings because in painting the historical figure, "accuracy" could justify otherwise scandalous images of scantily-clad young women.
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Sappho is the most famous of the ancient Greek women poets. Sappho is known for the island on which she lived and taught young women, Lesbos, and the assumption that she and some of her students were lesbians.
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Sappho joined the CBA in 1991 when she became a pitcher for the Vestal Virgins, CBA's team of interesting women. She was not an outstanding player and in 1996 she was deactivated. The Virgins immediately named Sappho to be their field manager, a position she held until the end of the 1999 season when she retired from cosmic baseball. In four seasons as a manager she compiled a mediocre 313-335 won-loss record.
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Robinson portrays Sappho as a 20th century woman living in the 6th century (B.C.) regarding her lifestyle. He details what life was like for women on the island of Lesbos and how it differed greatly from that of the rest of the world at that time. He extends her influence to numerous areas such as; art, literature, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, music, and American and French literature. It is fascinating to see how much Sappho has influenced various cultures around the globe throughout history and how she influenced the culture during the time in which she lived.
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(Diane J. Rayor has translated all of the Greek women poets, including 68 fragments of Sappho. The notes are a bit sketchy, but Rayor's introduction places the women poets in the larger setting of the Greek lyric. (See the book's table of contents online.):]
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Many another modern critic ranks Sappho as supreme. Typical are such eulogies as “Sappho, the most famous of all women” (Aldington), or “Sappho, incomparably the greatest poetess the world has ever seen” (Watts-Dunton in ninth ed. Encyclopaedia Britannica).
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