Hi! This is a repost of a video from last year, to celebrate the end of Summer!!! 🤣 Anyone who knows me, know how I feel about summer! And Autumn is my favorite time of year! 😊 Of course, summer won’t go quietly where I am, so they’re forecasting one last blast this week (or… 

The only complete poem we have by Sappho, and therefore probably the most famous, is her Hymn to Aphrodite, or Ode to Aphrodite. (There’s also a Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite—which wasn’t composed by Homer, despite what we call it—that shouldn’t be confused with Sappho’s poem.) It would make a wonderful video, but this is not… 

Hi! Last Sunday over on Substack, I posted “The Most Influential People In Ancient History” (pt. 2), about Homer and Sappho. I mentioned that there’s been different theories about Sappho’s role (whether she ran some sort of “school” for young ladies or taught them or what) and those ideas, some of which started back in… 

Sappho’s Ode to Artemis