Thursday, January 1, 2004
Hymn To Aphrodite Comments
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Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite!
Child of Zeus, Enchantress, I implore thee
Slay me not in this distress and anguish,
Lady of beauty.
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Sappho
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James Kates
19 March 2019
Startling howcwell Sappho wrote in fairly modern English! What a genius!
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Olivia Perpetua
02 August 2005
The pronoun 'she' should be used in place of 'he, ' for that was what Sappho originally wrote in her works.
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7/18/2025 10:07:26 PM # 1.0.0
PoemHunter should add the name of the translator to these ancient poems translated from Greek and all similar poems from other languages.