Posted by on October 28, 2024 9:42 am
Originally From: Pink News

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I tell you

someone will remember us

in the future

These words are from a fragment of a lost work by Ancient Greek poet Sappho, who was so well-known for her lyrical poetry focusing on love and women, that her name, and the name of her home island, became derivatives of the terms sapphic and lesbian.

The poem speaks of the desire to be remembered well beyond the author’s life time – tragic in the context that so much of Sappho’s work is lost to the ages, but deeply empowering when we consider that we do remember her because of remaining fragments such as this.

For a poet who is widely considered to be “the first lesbian”, although debate about her sexuality in academic circles does continue, the words take on a different

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