• Johnny_Arson [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    Huh no shit?

    Living on the island of Lesbos around 600 BCE, Sappho was a priestess lyric poet who wrote and sang eloquently on themes of love, passion and longing.

    I always kind of intuited that but I didn’t know it was because Sappho was from there.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      11 days ago

      Imagine being so gay that your entire country becomes synonymous with being gay, even thousands of years later. Inspirational.