While Sappho’s poetry was admired in the ancient world, her character was not always so well considered. In the Roman period, critics found her lustful and perhaps even homosexual.[145]Horace called her “mascula Sappho” in hisEpistles, which the later Porphyrio commented was “either because...
Archaic smile, the smile that characteristically appears on the faces of Greek statues of the Archaic period (c. 650–480 bc), especially those from the second quarter of the 6th century bc. The significance of the convention is not known, although it is