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Also available for love-Iron academics are such useful anthologies as The Literary Companion to Sex. This sexy volume includes excerpts from Sappho, the Kama Sutra, and everyone's sensual favorite, the Talmud...
...Sappho in Russian Poetry: Uses and Abuses of the Tenth Muse--by Diana Burgin, professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Coolidge Hall, room...
Nevertheless, AIDS is primarily associated with white, middle-class homosexuals, not only because of their numbers and high casualty rate but also because they are better organized and more articulate than other afflicted groups. It is somewhat patronizing to note that from Sappho to Capote, homosexuals have enriched Western literature. Today AIDS has put gay writers in the vortex of journalism...
...University of Arizona's future Western Civ courses, James Baldwin may stand with the seventh-century B.C. poet Sappho, while the Homeric Hymn to Demeter shares center stage with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway...
...their time. A surge in population had fattened the cities and fostered Greek colonies from Sicily to Asia Minor, creating the prerequisites for free inquiry and sophisticated taste: prosperity, cosmopolitanism and leisure. An individual voice was being heard, graceful but down to earth, in the new lyric poets like Sappho and Anacreon. Artists began signing their work. On a red-figure drinking cup that shows a young athlete bending over a washbowl, a blunt autograph bends over the image: "Pamphaios made...