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Nathan Gilmour, Jordan Poss, and Michial Farmer talk about some of Sappho’s poems about and addressed to goddesses:

• “Subtly Bedizened Aphrodite” (Lobel-Page 1);
• “Leave Crete and Sweep to This Blest Temple” (Lobel-Page 2);
• “Nereids, Kypris, Please Restore” (Lobel-Page 5);
• “A Full Moon Shone” (Lobel-Page 154);
• “Reveal Your Graceful Figure Here” (Voigt 17);
• “Untainted Graces” (Voigt 53); and
• “Come Close, You Precious” (Voigt 128).

SHOW NOTES

• Our translations of Sappho: Richmond Lattimore (1955), Aaron Poochigian (2009), and Philip Freeman (2016).
• Michial’s understanding of ancient sexuality was informed by Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality.
• Disney’s Hercules might mislead some viewers as to the centrality of the myths to Greek religion.
• Sappho uses a blazon on the Graces.
• Sappho writes in dialect, just like Paul Laurence Dunbar.
• Sappho’s major contemporary lesbian is a man, Alcaeus.
• When Nathan thinks Aphrodite, he thinks Euripides’s Hippolytus.
• Michial was disturbed by one vignette from The Vagina Monologues.
• N.B.: We couldn’t find the source of moon being the most poetic word.
• Jordan still has Walter de la Mare’s “Silver” memorized.
• Our theme music was provided by Blue Dot Sessions.

RELEVANT NETWORK SHOWS

• The Christian Humanist Podcast 61: Euripides.
• The Christian Humanist Podcast 126: American Folk Music.
• The Core Curriculum, 1.1: Iliad, Books 1-2.