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Originally Posted by Solon
Thanks for the signature props. Callimachus was unbelievably talented, but almost impossible to read.
Sappho is always good for some nice imagery. It's probably the greatest tragedy of the ancient world that no intact poem of hers has survived.
My favorite Sappho fragment:
"The moon has set,
And the Pleiades. It is the middle of the night, time passes.
I, alone, lie down to sleep."
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I liked that one too.
Interesting that she predicted that her words would be immortal. Time seems to have proven her, to some extent, correct.