Mar
25
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‘Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene’ (1864) by Simeon Solomon, Tate, London
Art is beautiful, but also dangerous. Sappho (on the right here) wrote nine books of poetry, the principal subject of which is the joy and frustration of love. That these two women are lovers is clear by the pair of doves seated above them …