Small bites of Big Literature: Sapfo and Euripides against war

06/04/2025 11 min

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In this episode join Chrysanthi as she presents an antiwar poem written on 630 B.C. by Sapfo. Sarcasm is found there smashing all the stereotypes that identified a male person by his braveness. Sapfo is speaking about her feelings which was a great revolution in poetry of a time that the epic poetry of Iliad dominated the literary landscape. I connect this poem to an excerpt of the Trojan Women, a tragedy of Euripides written on 416 B.C., literally a masterpiece about peace!https://www.linkedin.com/in/chryssanthi-koutsiviti-860a4788/#Greek Literature #antiwar literatureChrysanthi Koutsiviti, a passionate teacher and a passionate philologist! A passionate hiker and traveler around the planet, as well! After 36 years of teaching in secondary and tertiary education I like to think that some social impact might have occured by teaching these masterpieces of global literature, ancient and contemporary, to my students or my ‘’spiritual children’’, as I like to say!Amplify Women's Voices 🎙️We’ve created a collective podcast channel featuring over 40 episodes produced by incredible women across Europe, sharing diverse stories from women-led communities.Amplify Women’s Voices is a joint initiative by Clôd Baumgartner (EXPEERTS Club), Ioanna Marcou (The A40S), and Melinda Varfi (Social Fokus).This project is co-funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed in the podcast are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.🔗 Explore More:🌍 www.EXPEERTS.club🚀 www.agencyforinnovation.com🌱 www.a40s.org🎧 socialfokus.org🎙️ amplifywomensvoices.podcastpage.io#AmplifyWomensVoices #WomenWhoLead #Podcasting #Storytelling #EuropeanVoices

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