An Island of Lesbos!
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An Island of Lesbos!
| Fri, 06-10-2005 - 4:59pm |
Quite awhile back, when I was having problems in my love life, I jokingly mentioned to a friend that I would love to leave the country.
She replied "Go to Greece. You'll find and island of lesbos there".
I was like, "Really?" and she smiled and said "Yeah, really". I had no clue what she meant until today. Anyone here know what she was talking about?


Lesbos is one of the Greek Islands and home to Sappho, a famous female poet of the ancient world.
Actually the word Lesbian is derived from that Island and because of Sappho
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Hi Beth - here's what I could find:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos
And about Sappho:
Sappho was a Greek poetess and teacher at a girls school on the Island of Lesbos during the 6th century B.C. The exact dates of her birth and death are unknown. Her lyric poetry was so exquisite that Plato called her the "tenth muse." Much of her poetry was about both the ecstasy and pain of love, which was virtually unknown in poetry until that time. She also wrote hymns of praise to the Greek Goddesses, particularly Aphrodite. Not much is known about Sappho's life, and only a few of her works remain. Early translators, disturbed that many of her passionate love poems were addressed to adolescent girls, simply changed their gender in translation to fit their world view. Sappho's books were burned by Christians in 380 A.D. at the insistance of Pope Gregory Nazianzen. The rest of her works may have been destroyed in 1073 A.D. when Pope Gregory VII ordered another book burning.
Great work, Caly and pooh!
I was actually doing a Google search on Sappho when I came across "The Island of Lesbos" and was like - oh, DURRRRRRRRR! That's what she meant.....hehehe!
Sadie:
Actually, there really is an island with a town Lesbos and there are plenty of Lesbians that do live there! It's one of those far off places that I would love to visit. I also heard that is is a very open community, and a great place to visit straight or Gay. Of course, go to the map and look to make sure. Because of my old age, I don't remember how I learned about it, I just always knew it was there. Maybe I'm wrong, but, I don't think I am...............who knows, just my two cents cuz I'm bored right now.... I wonder how Laurie was able to get Ginny?
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I actually passed ginny's bus on the way to pick her up. So we got there pretty much the same time.
I brought her to my house for a bit then we went to dinner, then took her to the hotel and got her checked in. She was exhausted so she wanted to quit for the day and crash a while. She will call if she wants to get out. I bet she will be sleeping away though. I guess she had an exhausting 25 hour bus ride.
She wants to rest up for tomorrow when we got to The Gay Pride Parade and Festival. I recognized her right away.
We got a lot of talking in while visiting. She survived meeting all of our dogs.
Talk to you later need to go to Star Bucks!
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