Sappho’s Proof that Death is an Evil

Sappho’s Proof that Death is an Evil

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Aristotle (</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>Rh.</em></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span><span...

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Main Author: Harold M. Zellner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Duke University 2010-11-01
Series:Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Online Access:http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/571
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description <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Aristotle (</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>Rh.</em></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">1398b) represents Sappho (fr.201) as arguing that gods choose not to die and thus that death is an evil, which is perhaps best explained if her poem responded to the militaristic valuation of death expressed in poets like Tyrtaeus.</span>
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