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Herodotus’ Rhodipus or Sappho’s Sobriquet? A Close Reading of Jesper Svenbro’s “The Messon of the Island of Lesbos: Toponym as Evidence in the History of Ideas, or Introduction to Ten Poems from The Name of Sappho’s Daughter”
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Jesper Svenbro’s “First Prologus to the Charaxos-Poem” is the first in a series of poems dedicated to unraveling the identities of Sappho’s family members through their relationships to Anatolia, Lesbos, and the wider Mediterranean, including the enigma that is Doricha. It begins: Before the Charaxos-poem begins, a rich heiress on the island of Lesbos marries…