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Grubbses Katie and David and Posses Jordan and Sarah discuss a number of Sappho’s poems about weddings:

• “Idaos, Then, That Panting Messenger” (Lobel-Page 44);
• “Carpenters, Raise the Rafter-Beam” (Lobel-Page 111);
• “Blest Bridegroom, This Day of Matrimony” (Lobel-Page 112);
• “The Ambrosial Mixture” (Lobel-Page 144);
• “Because Once on a Time You Were” (Voigt 27);
• “And May the Maidens All Night Long” (Voigt 30);
• “It Would Take Seven Fathoms to Span” (Voigt 110);
• “Because There Is No Other Girl Than She” (Voigt 113);
• “Maidenhead, Maidenhead, Where Have You Gone?” (Voigt 114);
• “May You Bed Down” (Voigt 126);
• “Groomsmen, Kings with Bastions” (Voigt 161).

SHOW NOTES

• Our translations of Sappho: Jim Powell (2007) and Aaron Poochigian (2009), and Philip Freeman (2016).
• David has a weird relationship with The Return of Jafar (1994).
• Jordan loves Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.” 
• Is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers an adaptation of Sappho?
• Sappho’s wedding rituals made Katie think about Marie Antoinette. 
• We take another gratuitous shot at Troy. 
• Jordan recommends Trojan War: The Podcast. 
• Aphrodite appears in That Hideous Strength as a beneficent spirit.
• Sappho vs. The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
• It takes 54 minutes for someone to bring up My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
• David thinks about the matchmakers in Mulan.
• Yes, Salinger got Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters from Sappho.
• Our theme music was provided by Blue Dot Sessions.

RELEVANT NETWORK SHOWS

• The Christian Feminist Podcast 113: Song of Solomon.
• The Christian Humanist Podcast 292: Marie Antoinette.
• The City of Man 106: That Hideous Strength.
• Complementarianish 3: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
• The Core Curriculum, Series 1, Episode 3: Iliad Books 5-6.