WikiPedia definition of "sapphic"
Sapphic can refer to: Related to Sappho, a 7th century BC poetess Sapphic stanza, a four line poetic form; Sapphic love, related to female homosexuality
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The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form spanning four lines (more properly three, in the poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus, where there is no word-end before the ...
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The word "lesbian" derives from the name of the island of her birth, Lesbos; her name is also the origin of its nowadays less common synonym "sapphic".
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In classical antiquity, writers such as Herodotus, [1] Plato, [2] Xenophon, [3] Athenaeus [4] and many others explored aspects of same-sex love in ancient Greece.
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The word lesbian derives from the name of the island of her birth, Lesbos, while her name is also the origin of the word sapphic; both words were only applied to female ...
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Lesbian vampirism is a trope in 20th century exploitation film that has its roots in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu 's novella Carmilla (1872) about the predatory love of a female vampire (the ...
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Poets from Swinburne to Allen Ginsburg have used the Sapphic stanza. Hungarian poets such as Dániel Berzsenyi and Mihály Babits have written in Alcaics.
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Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. [1] The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify ...
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These avant-garde poets drew inspiration from earlier Greek authors, especially Sappho and Callimachus; Catullus himself used Sapphic meter in two poems, Catullus 11 and 51, the second ...
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This meter was used most often in the Sapphic stanza, named after the Greek poet Sappho, who wrote many of her poems in the form. A hendecasyllabic is a line with a never-varying ...
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