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Sappho, Nossis & Praxilla

Sappho, Nossis & Praxilla

No recipe today. Instead, three fragments of ancient Greek poetry written by women. Sappho is the most famous of the three. Nossis was from Locris ( now called Locri, a town in southern Italy), where it seems that they had a women’s cult for the goddess Aphrodite (“Kypris” is another name for Aphrodite, the goddess… Continue Reading