... the pains of life's struggle. Rather, death is a profoundly awful thing that is very much worth avoiding if at all possible. Sappho makes the excellent point that if death were a good thing, then everyone, even the gods, would die. [Sappho, 87] But they do not. They are the immortals. This negative image of death is reinforced in The Iliad for instance, as ... ...

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... Odysseus" destiny, to reunite with his son and his wife, Penelope, who is highest on his ascending scale of philos. As evidence to this claim, we bring in a verse by Sappho: Sappho 16 stanza 1 Some say an army of horsemen. some of footsoldiers, some of ships, is the fairest thing on earth, but I say it is what one loves. What Achilles loved ... ...

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