Lesbos & lesbians

Friday, 9th May 2008

Classicist Mary Beard ponders a curious legal case:

This idea of decoupling Sappho, female homoeroticism and the island of Lesbos seems to me about as mad as trying to white out William Shakespeare from Stratford on Avon.

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