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Christina Bieber Lake, Nathan Gilmour, and Jay Eldred talk about some of Sappho’s poems about aging and death:

• “But When You Lie Dead” (Lobel-Page 55);
• “Girls, Chase the Violet-Bosomed Muses’ Bright” (Lobel-Page 58);
• “But a Strange Longing to Pass On” (Lobel-Page 95);
• “Kytherea, Precious Adonis Is Nearly Dead” (Lobel-Page 140);
• “As You Are Dear to Me” (Voigt 121);
• “Here Is the Reason” (Voigt 150);
• “Someone, I Say” (Voigt 147).

SHOW NOTES

• Our translations of Sappho: Anne Carson (2002), Aaron Poochigian (2009), and Philip Freeman (2016).
• Our Iliad series somehow made Jay want to watch Troy. (Don’t watch Troy.)
• Nathan is self-conscious about his Erasman vowels.
• The daughters of Pierus were turned into magpies.
• The opportunists don’t even make it all the way into the Inferno.
• Like Westley, Sappho is a (wo)man of action.
• Another Terry Pratchett reference from Jay–this time to Reaper Man. 
• Christina likes the way the Elysian Fields are portrayed in Gladiator.
• Sappho and the Emily Dickinson of “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” may be doing the same thing.
• Plato’s Ion tries to explain the sophomore slump. And his Symposium and Phaedrus shed some light on Greek sexuality.
• Sappho introduces us to the Adonis cult.
• Our theme music was provided by Blue Dot Sessions.

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