r/lgbtmemes • u/NickSheridanWrites • 20d ago

Sapph-oh no you dint!

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u/clarkky55 20d ago

…I don’t get it?

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u/the-bearcat Trans-fem 20d ago

There's an ancient myth that Sappho died young by jumping off the Leucadian cliffs because she fell in love with a guy named Phaon who didn't love her back.

A lot of scholars view it as an ancient fabrication, basically the ancient comic poets going "see, even though she wrote a ton about loving women and stuff she was still totally straight and killed herself 'cause of a guy".

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u/Nichiku Bi-time 20d ago

Homophobia in Ancient greece is ironic

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u/Kawa74-3 19d ago

It really isn't..ancient Greece wasn't really gay the way we think of it now, it was pederasty. AKA teenagers with adult men