The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
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WAS ANCIENT GREEK POET SAPPHO GAY ?
The last is a particularly load issue, given that, for many rears and scholars, Sappho has been a femist heroe or a gay role mol, or both.
There were no words Ancient Greek Sappho’s time that meant “gay, ” “bi, ” or “straight. In other words, each person is herently “straight, ” “gay, ” “bisexual, ” or somethg else.
In fact, there are no words Ancient Greek that are equivalent to the English words “straight, ” “gay, ” or “bi. As a rult, outsi the poems of Sappho, there are extremely few survivg sourc that discs homoerotic love and attractn between women at all. Female homoeroticism was also apparently an acceptable subject to be celebrated artistic pictns durg this perd.