New York Times: terms “lesbian” and “Sappho”, January 31, 1875
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe New York Times publishes an anonymous review of Social Life in Ancient Greece: From Homer to Menander, by the Reverend J. P. Mahaphy, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. London and New York: Macmillan & Co., 1874.[1]
Referring to the “lyric age” of ancient Greek society, the reviewer says:
- The principles laid down for the guidance of public men, those which influenced men in their mutual intercourse, as well as the course of love-making and the relations of the sexes, are likewise depicted with all the realistic aid of Archilochus, Anacreon, Ibycus, and the “burning” Sappho; and the account lacks nothing of perspicuity or even vividness.
The author adds that “The chapter contains, besides copies references to the fragments that have come down to us from the Lesbian poetess," and then goes on to other subjects.
Notes
- ↑ “New Publications,” New York Times, January 31, 1875. No page listed in online database.
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