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This should just mention Sappho and Algy, and the poem might go at Wikisource. I'm tagging it because I'm in the middle of something else and might forget this. —JerryFriedman04:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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... that scholars debate whether Anactoria, mentioned in the poems of Sappho, was a real person, a pseudonym or Sappho's invention? Source: Ford, Andrew L. (2011). Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 120. ISBN9780199733293.
ALT1: ... that Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem about the love of Sappho for Anactoria has been called "frankly pornographic"? Source: Cook, David A. (1971). "The Content and Meaning of Swinburne's 'Anactoria'". Victorian Poetry. 9 (1/2): 77. JSTOR40001590.
ALT2: ... that Sappho compared her beloved Anactoria with Helen of Troy? Source: Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard (2000). "Shifting Helen: An Interpretation of Sappho, Fragment 16 (Voigt)". The Classical Quarterly. 50 (1): 6. JSTOR1558930.
@UndercoverClassicist: the first hook looks fine. I think that the quote in ALT1 should be attributed. I found ALT2 less interesting than the others, and I'm not sure that "Sappho compared her beloved Anactoria with Helen of Troy" is quite the same as "Sappho compares her desire for Anactoria, who is described as being absent, with that of Helen of Troy for Paris". Let me kow what you think. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:23, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]