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How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness (aeon.co)

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[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I tried getting through that very long article, but I lost interest already in the very first few words - when reading that the originator was ostensibly one "Herr G. Heim", which can be translated to "Mr. S. Ecret", clearly a fake name.

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

That's intentionally part of the article that's explained later on in it. Part of the value of reading the whole article, or at least skimming it all.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They bury the lede with all the stuff about Sappho, which is cool and all, but the article doesn't get on topic until about 1/2 way down.