By Gregory Nagy Sappho’s Aphrodite, the goddess Chryse, and a primal ordeal suffered by Philoctetes in a tragedy of Sophocles Read more
By Gregory Nagy How the first word in Song 1 of Sappho is relevant to her reception in the ancient world—and to various different ways of thinking about the Greek word hetairā Read more
By Gregory Nagy The theo-eroticism of mythmaking about Aphrodite’s love for boys like Adonis Read more
By Gregory Nagy About Aphrodite’s birds and her magical flowers in Song 1 of Sappho and elsewhere Read more