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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 metrical form she developed came to be known as the Sapphic meter. Many of her poems deal with Aphrodite, a common theme in Greek poetry in general.
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"Sapphic". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Sapphic. Retrieved 2009-02-07. ^ Denys Page, Sappho and Alcaeus, Oxford UP, 1959, pp. 142-146.
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For example, the Sapphic stanza, which represents such a large part of Sappho's surviving poetry, is also well represented in Alcaeus' work (e.g. Alcaeus frr. 34, 42, 45, 308b, 362
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The legendary love between Alexander the Great and his childhood friend, Hephaistion is sometimes regarded as being of the same order. Sapphic love
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Ava Lyn Koh is a British actress and stage director of Chinese-Singaporean origin. Koh became a star of the fledgling Singapore movie industry during its post-colonial period in the 1990s
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In 1773, a London magazine described sex between women as "Sapphic passion". The adjective form Sapphic is still commonly used in the English language.
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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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Sapphic stanza: 24: Lesbia: Dumping a promiscuous girlfriend: Furius and Aurelius: 12: Latin English: hendecasyllabic: 17: Invective: Shaming a napkin thief: Asinius Marrucinus
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