Anactoria
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anactoria-231-834818
title:
Anactoria
text:
Anactoria is a woman mentioned by the Ancient Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE. Sappho names Anactoria as the object of her desire in a poem numbered as fragment 16. Another poem by Sappho, fragment 31, is traditionally called the "Ode to Anactoria", though no name appears in it. As portrayed in Sappho's work, she is likely to have been a young, aristocratic follower of Sappho's, of marriageable age. It is possible that fragment 16 was written in con
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wiki
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description:
Woman mentioned by Sappho
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anactoria
date created:
2005-09-12T03:04:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T20:16:27Z
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13
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16