LESBOS

lĕzˈbŏs or Lésvoslāzˈvôs, island (1991 pop. 87,151), c.630 sq mi (1,630 sq km), E Greece, in the Aegean Sea near Turkey. A fertile island, it has vast olive groves and also produces wheat, wine, and citrus fruit. Fishing, tanning, and livestock raising are significant industries. Mitilíni is the island's chief town. Lesbos was a center of Bronze Age civilization and later (c.1000 b.c.) was settled by Aeolians. The island was a brilliant cultural center from the 7th to the 6th cent. b.c., when the poets Alcaeus and Sappho and the statesman Pittacus were active there. Aristotle and Epicurus lived on the island, and Theophrastus was born on Lesbos. Lesbos joined the Delian League and revolted unsuccessfully against Athens in 428–27 b.c. Later, Lesbos passed to Macedonia, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire. It was taken by the Ottoman Turks in 1462 and became part of Greece in 1913. The island is sometimes known as Mytilene, which is a variation of Mitilíni.

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books on: Lesbos  - 1371 results

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Poems and Fragments
Book by Stanley Lombardo, Susan Warden, Sappho; Hackett, 2002
Subjects: Lesbos Island (Greece)--Poetry, Sappho--Translations Into English, Women--Greece--Poetry
...Sapphic recovery. Some reinvented Sapphos Lesbos in Paris, but others tried to recuperate...women writers by sailing to the island of Lesbos itself. The writers Natalie Bar- ney...Vivien, for example, traveled together to Lesbos via Con- stantinople in 1904 and set...
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Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
Book by Judith Ryan; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern--20th Century, Modernism (Aesthetics)--Germany, Rilke, Rainer Maria--1875-1926--Criticism And Interpretation
...The Flamingos is a response to Baudelaires Lesbos, one of six poems from The Flowers of Evil...stanza, which begins and ends with the line: Lesbos, ou les Phrynes lune lautre sattirent Lesbos, where Phrynes draw one another near . 37...
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Thucydides - Vol. 2
Book by Benjamin Jowett; Clarendon Press, 1900
Subjects: Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C, Inscriptions, Greek
...expedition was directed first against Lesbos, the Lacedaemonians having originally...their officers to proceed from Chios to Lesbos, and thence to the Hellespont b . It...Clazomenae and Cyme. The fleet sailed to Lesbos, and first induced Methymna to rebel...
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The Flowers of Evil
Book by Charles Baudelaire, James McGowan; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Poetry
Lesbos, where love is like the wild cascades That throw themselves...and with sobs, Stormy and secret, swarming underground; Lesbos, where love is like the wild cascades! Lesbos, where Phrynes * seek each other out, Where no sigh ever...
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Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists
Book by Joanna Kadi; South End Press, 1994
...Black. I also managed a day trip to the Isle of Lesbos. I told Emily why I wanted to go there that it had...managed to get from Turkey to Chios, from Chios to Lesbos, and then from Lesbos back to Turkey again, as if we had planned it months...
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journal articles on: Lesbos  - 88 results

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Formation of the Late Palaeozoic-early Mesozoic Karakaya Complex and Related Ophiolites in Nw Turkey by Palaeotethyan Subduction-accretion
Journal article by Elizabeth A. Pickett, Alastair H. F Robertson; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 153, 1996
Subjects: Geology, Paleontology, Plate tectonics, Turkey
...further south, on the Greek island of Lesbos (Fig. 2). On the Karaburun Peninsula...exposed in the region. The Denizgoren and Lesbos Ophiolites The Denizgoren Ophiolite has...unit are exposed on the Greek island of Lesbos (Figs 1 2), along strike from the Denizgoren...
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Creating from Nothing: Swinburne and Baudelaire in "Ave Atque Vale"
Journal article by Thomas J. Brennan; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 44, 2006
Subjects: Ave atque Vale (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Baudelaire, Charles--Works, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Swinburne, Algernon Charles--Works
...The reference is to Baudelaires poem "Lesbos" and especially to its final stanza...suicide: And from that time to this, Lesbos laments. heedless of the homage of the...shores, And from that time to this, Lesbos laments! (p. 126) <br/ The last...
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Mother Nature Versus the Amazons: Marina Tsvetaeva and Female Same-Sex Love
Journal article by Diana Lewis Burgin; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 6, 1995
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...as well as by Sapphos birthplace, Lesbos. 48 Following the myth in Ovid, Tsvetaeva does not name Lesbos in "Letter to the Amazon" but alludes...Interestingly, both Sappho and the Orpheus-Lesbos myth have a resonance in Parnoks poetry...
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Renee Vivien and the Ladies of the Lake
Journal article by Tama Lea Engelking; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 2002
Subjects: Death--Portrayals, French poetry--19th century AD, Lesbianism--Portrayals, Mental disorders--Portrayals, Mental illness--Portrayals, Pre-Raphaelites--Criticism and interpretation, Preraphaelites--Criticism and interpretation, Vivien, Renee--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation, Women--Portrayals
...briefly shared a villa on the island of Lesbos in 1904 where they had hoped to establish...their mutual dream was never realized on Lesbos, Barney established herself as a central figure in Paris-Lesbos where her fashionable salon on the left...
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Unspeakable Writing: Jean Lorrain's Monsieur De Phocas
Journal article by Michael Du Plessis; French Forum, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: French fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gay literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lorrain, Jean--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Monsieur de Phocas (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...may never speak its name in the novel; Lesbos, by contrast, is fuel for constant rumor. Freneuse rails against the "brulure de Lesbos" which may be nothing more than "des...for the two men to ridicule. "--A Lesbos?," asks Freneuse, to which Ethal replies...
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magazine articles on: Lesbos  - 48 results

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Allah, Lesbos & Me
Magazine article by Irshad Manji; Herizons, Vol. 10, Winter 1996
Subjects: Gays & lesbians, Human relations, Interpersonal communication, Personal relationships, Religion
Allah, Lesbos Me by Irshad Manji Allah, Lesbos Me. My mother doesnt understand it and shes liberal Muslim. A lot of my friends dont understand it and theyre progressive lesbians. But I understand it and, dammit, Im gonna explain it to the...
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The First Tourist: In the 15th Century, Cyriacus of Ancona Journeyed in Search of the Mediterranean's Classical Past. in So Doing, He Laid the Groundwork for the 18th-Century Grand Tour and Today's Cultural Holidays
Magazine article by Marina Belozerskaya; History Today, Vol. 60, March 2010
Subjects: Archaeologists--Influence, Cyriacus of Ancona--Influence
...unsuccessful attempt to sail from Chios to Lesbos: We laboured our way at a moderate speed...there was a struggle between the nymphs of Lesbos, who pulled us on, and those of Chios...the sails and forced our stern towards Lesbos and our prow toward Chios. The holy Nereid...
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Pushkin
Magazine article by Hugh Barnes; New Statesman, Vol. 128, January 8, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...Eden and Elysium were on earth and at hand on the island of Lesbos, where his brief residence "in distant parts" is mentioned...unique collection of materials, that Pushkin saw his journey to Lesbos as one of escape. In undertaking the trip illicitly, without...
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Secret Lives, Rotting Books
Magazine article by Hugh Barnes; New Statesman, Vol. 128, January 8, 1999
Subjects: Nabokov, Vladimir--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Pushkin, Alexander--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Russia--Literature
...Eden and Elysium were on earth and at hand on the island of Lesbos, where his brief residence "in distant parts" is mentioned...unique collection of materials, that Pushkin saw his journey to Lesbos as one of escape. In undertaking the trip illicitly, without...
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Tirdad Zolghadr
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 48, January 2010
Subjects: Art criticism--Social aspects, Art festivals--Personalities, Artists--Compensation and benefits, Bonami, Francesco--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Pressure groups--Political activity, Special interest groups--Political activity, Storr, Robert--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...trappings of Top Ten success this refreshingly, unapologetically awkward. Makes the Venice Biennale parties look like Vampyros Lesbos. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED 8 BENJAMIN H. D. BUCHLOHs sojourn as Daimler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, 2009. Having...
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newspaper articles on: Lesbos  - 94 results

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Lesbos Women: Don't Besmirch Our Name
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 30, 2008
Lesbos Women: Dont Besmirch Our Name. GREEK courts...themselves. The plaintiffs, from the island of Lesbos, claim this use of the name is "arape of...the goddess and poetSappho, a native of Lesbos, did not sleep with women..
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Swapping Places
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 18, 2008
Subjects: Wheeler, Sara
...beachsidevilla on the Greek island of Lesbos. There were no contracts to sign, and...uselessjunk foaming up in every corner. Lesbos, the third largest Greek island (behind...of interest among the parched grass. Lesbos lies on a springmigration route, and...
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They're Dying to Get to Britain; Reportage; Samos: Boatloads of Mainly Afghans Slash Their Own Craft So Watching Police Are Forced to Render Them from Turkey into the EU. Many of Them - Especially Children - Drown. in a Special Report Covering 4,000 Miles from Kabul to a Service Station on the M1, Live Follows the Surge of Afghan Immigrants Driven by One Belief: Our Afghan Campaign Means the UK Owes Them a Living
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 21, 2010
Subjects: Automobile services industry, Automotive services industry, Human smuggling, Immigrants
...shocked by the conditions at the Pagani centre on the island of Lesbos, where one room housed over 150 women and 50 babies, many...Athens they were held at the Pagani centre on the island of Lesbos. It was like a prison, probably worse. It was crowded - there...
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Happy Island Hopping in the Historic Aegean; A Spectacular Voyage Lets Chris Rowland See a Decade's Worth of Greek Islands in a Two-Week Cruise
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 19, 2008
...dolphins. Once into the sparkling Aegean, our first stop was Lesbos, the third largest of the Greek islands, which lies only a...Barbagiannis ouzo distillery, where bottles of the fiery spirit - Lesbos makes the strongest variety in the Mediterranean - clinked off...
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Nah Mate, Fair Dinkum!
Newspaper article; The Observer (Gladstone, Australia), April 28, 2009
...perceptions like John Travolta in phenomenon? Well just have to wait and see. Did you know: Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than lesbians? (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
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encyclopedia articles on: Lesbos  - 14 results

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Lesbos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LESBOS lez bos or Lesvos laz vos, island (1991...industries. Mitilini is the islands chief town. Lesbos was a center of Bronze Age civilization...the island, and Theophrastus was born on Lesbos. Lesbos joined the Delian League and revolted...
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MitilÍni
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MITILINI metelye nye or Mytilene mitile ne, city (1991 pop. 24,953), capital of Lesbos prefecture, E Greece, a port on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea. Roman remains are there. ____________________ Copyright...
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Sappho
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...poets (Plato calls her "the tenth Muse"), b. Mytilene on Lesbos. Facts about her life are scant. She was an aristocrat, who...orientation, is derived from the name of her island home, Lesbos. The ancients had seven or nine books of her poetry (the first...
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Catullus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Clodius. She was suspected of murdering her husband. Catullus wrote to his beloved, addressed as Lesbia (to recall Sappho of Lesbos), a series of superb little poems that run from early passion and tenderness to the hatred and disillusionment that overwhelmed...
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Pittacus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Greek statesman and military leader; one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece . He helped to overthrow the tyrant of Mytilene in Lesbos and became the lawgiver there, ruling for 10 years. A moderate democrat, Pittacus prevented the nobles in exile (among them...
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