Sappho and mythmaking in the context of an Aeolian-Ionian poetic Sprachbund
2016.10.08 | By Gregory Nagy The starting point here is Song 44 of Sappho, “The Wedding of Hector and Andromache.” My focus, this time, is on Aeolian myths about Thēbē, an old walled city in northwest Asia Minor, to be located southeast of Mount Ida and northeast of the Gulf of Adramytteion. Read more