Sapphic tradition
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The Sapphic tradition refers to the body of poetry, themes, and cultural legacy associated with Sappho of Lesbos, especially her lyric expressions of female desire and intimate emotional experience.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural tradition
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literary tradition ⓘ |
| associatedWithForm |
Aeolic lyric meters
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Sapphic stanza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
lyric poetry
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monodic lyric ⓘ |
| associatedWithLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Lesbos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralFigure | Sappho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMainSubject |
female desire
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homoerotic desire between women ⓘ intimate emotional experience ⓘ love poetry ⓘ personal lyric expression ⓘ |
| hasReceptionHistory |
Victorian reception of Sappho
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classical reception of Sappho ⓘ contemporary queer reappropriations of Sappho ⓘ modernist reinventions of Sappho ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
beauty and desire
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erotic longing ⓘ female friendship ⓘ female homoeroticism ⓘ jealousy in love ⓘ marriage and separation ⓘ memory and loss ⓘ song performance in intimate settings ⓘ subjective interiority ⓘ the female voice in poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hellenistic lyric poetry
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Renaissance lyric poetry ⓘ Roman love elegy ⓘ Romantic poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ feminist literary traditions ⓘ medieval love lyric ⓘ modern lesbian literature ⓘ queer poetics ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Sappho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sappho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | poetry of Sappho of Lesbos ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Sapphism
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female lyric subjectivity ⓘ lesbianism ⓘ women-loving-women literature ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
classics
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comparative literature ⓘ feminist literary criticism ⓘ gender studies ⓘ queer studies ⓘ |
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