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Unfortunately, due to covid-related circumstances, we have to delay the release of episode 9 until next fortnight, March 11th. In the meantime, here's one of our bonus lesbian poetry episodes about Audre Lorde! You can hear our other bonus episodes by becoming a patron at patreon.com/sweetbitter. As always, you can follow us on social media on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. If you'd like to join us for our Women's History Month event with Regis University on March 3rd, you can register here.

             ] of desire              ]              ] for when I look at you              ] such a Hermione ] and to yellow haired Helen I liken you ] ] among mortal women, know this ] from every care ] you could release me              ]              ] dewy riverbanks              ] to last all night long                                        ]  [ Translated by Carson Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Chris Mason from Old Songs, Jane Montgomery Griffiths & Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website. Thank you this week to James Jones for lending us his deep-voice. If you'd like to join us for our Women's History Month event, you can find the details on our site, or register here.

Come to me from Krete to this holy temple,  here to your sweet apple grove,  altars smoking with  frankincense. Cold water ripples through apple branches, the whole place shadowed in roses,  from the murmuring leaves deep sleep descends. Where horses graze, the meadow blooms spring flowers in the winds breathe softly . . .  * Here, Aphrodite, after gathering . . .  pour into cups nectar lavishly mingled with joys. Translation by Rayor Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Roberta Mazza, Marguerite Johnson, Malcolm Choat, Mike Sampson, Usama Gad & Katherine Blouin. You can learn more about our guests and  where to find them on our website.

You, children, be zealous for the beautiful gifts of the violetlapped Muses and for the clear songloving lyre. But my skin once soft is now taken by old age, my hair turns white from black. And my heart is weighed down and my knees do not lift, that once were light to dance as fawns. I groan for this. But what can I do? A human being without old age is not a possibility. There is the story of Tithonos, loved by Dawn with her arms of roses and she carried him off to the ends of the earth when he was beautiful and young. Even so was he gripped by white old age. He still has his deathless wife. Translation by Carson (2005)  Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. 
You can read Carson’s thoughts on the 2004 discovery in the New York Review here. Roberta Mazza’s blog, Faces and Voices, can be found here.
 Our guests this episode were Roberta Mazza, Sandra Boehringer (trans. by Annie McCarthy), Marguerite Johnson, Malcolm Choat, Mike Sampson & Ariel Sabar. You can learn more about our guests and  where to find them on our website.

Grab a drink and join us for a holiday bonus episode with our friend Liv Albert from Let’s Talk About Myths Baby. We talk about Aphrodite, Greek Mythology and the patriarchy. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. You can find Let’s Talk About Myths Baby anywhere you find podcasts and on social media @mythsbaby.

] ] ] ] ]running away ]bitten ] ] ]you ]makes a way with the mouth ]beautiful gifts children ]songdelighting clear sounding lyre ]all my skin old age already hair turned white after black ]knees do not carry ]like fawns ]but what could I do? ]not possible to become ]Dawn with arms of roses ]bringing to the ends of the earth ]yet seized ]wife ]imagines ]might bestow But I love delicacy and this to me— the brilliance and beauty of the sun—desire has allotted. Translation by Carson Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. If you want to know more about Eurocentrism in papyrology, please follow Usama’s blog: Everyday Orientalism. Ariel’s book Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man & the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife is out wherever you buy books - here’s it's listing our favorite local. If you want to listen to another cool podcast all about the Hobby Lobby, check out the Behind the Bastards episode. Our guests this episode were Malcolm Choat, Ariel Sabar, Mike Sampson & Usama Gad. You can learn more about our guests and  where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/

When you lie dead, no one will remember you For you have no share in the Muses’ roses. No, flitting aimlessly about, You will wildly roam, a shade amidst the shadowy dead. Translated by Dubnoff Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Marguerite Johnson and Malcolm Choat. You can learn more about our guests and  where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/

Once again Love, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, seizes me. Translation by Rayor. Rayor, Diane. Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction & notes by André Lardinois. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Marguerite Johnson, Alex Purves, Jade Esteban Estrada and Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/

I simply wish to die.  Weeping she left me. and told me this, too: We've suffered terribly, Sappho. I leave you against my will. I answered: Go happily and remember me --  you know how we cared for you. If not, let me remind you * . . . the lovely times we shared. Many crowns of violets,  roses, and crocuses together . . . you put on by my side and many scented wreaths woven from blossoms around your delicate throat. And . . . with pure, sweet oil [for a queen] . . . you anointed . . . and on soft beds . . . delicate . . . you quenched your desire. Not any . . . no holy site . . . we left uncovered, no grove . . .        dance                               . . . sound Translation by Rayor.  Rayor, Diane. Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction & notes by André Lardinois. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - sign up before November 1st at any level for a free Sweetbitter tote bag. Our guests this episode were Marguerite Johnson, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Sandra Boehringer (translation by Annie McCarthy) and Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/

Some men say and army of horses and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is               what you love. Easy to make this understood by all. For she who overcame everyone in beauty (Helen)              left her fine husband behind and went sailing to Troy. Not for her children nor her dear parents had she a thought, no-                  ]led her astray                                ]for                                ]lightly                  ]reminded me now of Anaktoria                  who is gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face than chariots of Lydians or ranks                  of footsoldiers in arms ] not possible to happen ] to pay for a share ] ] ] ] ] toward[ ] ] ] out of the unexpected. Translation by Carson Sappho, , and Anne Carson. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. , 2002. Thank you for listening to our first episode! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - sign up before November 1st at any level for a free Sweetbitter tote bag. Our guests this episode were Chris Mason from Olds Songs, Marguerite Johnson and Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/

On the throne of many hues, Immortal Aphrodite, child of Zeus, weaving wiles: I beg you, do not break my spirit, O Queen, with pain or sorrow but come--if ever before from far away you heard my voice and listened, and leaving your father's golden home you came, your chariot yoked with lovely sparrows drawing you quickly over the dark earth in a whirling cloud of wings down the sky through midair, suddenly here. Blessed One, with a smile on your deathless face, you ask what have I suffered again and why do I call again and what in my wild heart do I most wish would happen: "Once again who must I persuade to turn back to your love? Sappho, who wrongs you? If now she flees, soon she'll chase. If rejecting gifts, then she'll give. If not loving, soon she'll love even against her will." Come to me now--release me from these troubles, everything my heart longs to have fulfilled, fulfill, and you be my ally. Translation by Rayor  Rayor, Diane. Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction & notes by André Lardinois. Thank you for listening to our episode zero! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - sign up before November 1st at any level for a free Sweetbitter tote bag.

Welcome to Sweetbitter, a podcast where we investigate the truth and controversy surrounding Sappho her life, the Isle of Lesbos and her relevance today, Each episode we'll deep dive into a part of the mystery of Sappho with insights from academics, translators, performers, and poets.  Launching October 15th 2020. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod, or support us on Patreon.