c. 590 BC / Lesbos

Lest We Forget

Tags:: ancient Greece,; fame game,; life after death,; memory,; poetry,; women

You may forget but
Let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us

I have no complaint

Prosperity that
the golden Muses
gave me was no
delusion: dead, I
won’t be forgotten.

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Sappho, two poem fragments. Regarded by Plato as the “Tenth Muse,” Sappho composed much of her poetry in the form of choral songs meant to be performed with a lyre. Only one of her extant poems, an ode to Aphrodite, is complete, running a mere twenty-eight lines. The next-longest intact fragment is sixteen lines.

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.