Dina, the poem does not necessarily portray sexual love. Sappho is pining because the man will be taking the girl away from Sappho's school, probably to marry her (that's why he is talking to her). She is fond of the girl, that's true, but the poem does not necessarily depict sexual desire on the part of Sappho. The girl is probably in her early teens, and Sappho is much older.
Sappho, as Dr Orrells forgot to say (!), is clearly describing the process of falling in love (anyone who ever has, will recognise the symptoms immediately); the man is compared to a god, because (a) he can publicly occupy a space which Sappho cannot and (b) because he is directly communicating with Sappho's beloved. Not for nothing was this poem 'translated' beautifully by Catullus (poem 51), the fruit of what was probably a similar experience re Lesbia (who is, of course, named for Sappho).
The Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches destroyed all these great works on the same day back in the 12th century, so people wouldn't 'waste their time reading, when they could be praying." They were burned on two giant bonfires, one in Rome and another in Byzantium. That's why we don't have Sappho's full works today. As a result, I've been filled with nothing but contempt, even hatred for those two institutions for my entire life.
Those two institutions were pretty bad, but we don't really have concrete evidence that they did that. The people claiming that they did lived mostly in the late Renaissance, hundreds of years after such things happened. There are no contemporary sources claiming this to be valid and the people claiming these things did have a bit of an anti-church bias.
@@tinibari456 There was a french scholar called Joseph Scaligar who claimed that during the middle ages they destroyed a lot of classical texts including Sappho. He says some dude called Pope Gregory V11 in 1076 ordered all clasical writing that had elements of promiscuty or lasciviousity to be burnt down (including Sappho)
Love learning about my gay queen
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How can anyone possibly say she wasn't gay, when she says delicious laughter?
I have delicious laughter towards my burger
@@FireBlaster3000 my gosh😂....
There are people who believe she's actually a man. SMH
@@Dianellier well, that's a possibility
Dina, the poem does not necessarily portray sexual love. Sappho is pining because the man will be taking the girl away from Sappho's school, probably to marry her (that's why he is talking to her). She is fond of the girl, that's true, but the poem does not necessarily depict sexual desire on the part of Sappho. The girl is probably in her early teens, and Sappho is much older.
Sappho, as Dr Orrells forgot to say (!), is clearly describing the process of falling in love (anyone who ever has, will recognise the symptoms immediately); the man is compared to a god, because (a) he can publicly occupy a space which Sappho cannot and (b) because he is directly communicating with Sappho's beloved. Not for nothing was this poem 'translated' beautifully by Catullus (poem 51), the fruit of what was probably a similar experience re Lesbia (who is, of course, named for Sappho).
...I was looking for this, not denying, but I thought this was Vsauce.
british vsauce
i thought this was jeff winger from Community dressed as the dean
The Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches destroyed all these great works on the same day back in the 12th century, so people wouldn't 'waste their time reading, when they could be praying." They were burned on two giant bonfires, one in Rome and another in Byzantium. That's why we don't have Sappho's full works today. As a result, I've been filled with nothing but contempt, even hatred for those two institutions for my entire life.
Any source for that?
Those two institutions were pretty bad, but we don't really have concrete evidence that they did that. The people claiming that they did lived mostly in the late Renaissance, hundreds of years after such things happened. There are no contemporary sources claiming this to be valid and the people claiming these things did have a bit of an anti-church bias.
@@tinibari456 There was a french scholar called Joseph Scaligar who claimed that during the middle ages they destroyed a lot of classical texts including Sappho. He says some dude called Pope Gregory V11 in 1076 ordered all clasical writing that had elements of promiscuty or lasciviousity to be burnt down (including Sappho)
somehow this presentation is both dead and alive.