Enunciation

Observations and context

Sappho's example served as a stimulus for almost all the surviving poets of Greco-Roman antiquity, from the Greeks (Mirtis and Corina, from Boeotia; Telesila and Praxila, from the Peloponnese; Erina, from the island of Telos; Mero, from Byzantium; Anita, from Tegea, a modest village in Arcadia? ) to the Romans (Melino, the elegiac Sulpicia, Herenia Procula, Sulpicia the satirist, the travellers Julia Balbila and Cecilia Trebula, Fabia Aconia Paulina, the last pagan...). Romantic writers used it as a shield to validate female authorship (Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Carolina Coronado, María Rosa Gálvez, etc.). With the contributions of the papyri found at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries, Sappho was once again translated and read. 
 
This activity can be done with any text by Sappho. We have chosen this one because it has survived to our days and its contents are relevant. The level of difficulty of the activity can be adapted by eliminating the most difficult terms or by providing some sample answers at the beginning of the activity. It can be done in other levels as well.

Description

Finding Hellenisms in your language from some common words in a poem by Sappho.   

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