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Primary-Source Fragments — Homework
Reread the Sappho fragment before answering.
- 1.What three specific things does the Sappho fragment directly state?
- 2.Is "the speaker feels a sense of loneliness" a reasonable inference or an overstatement? Explain.
- 3.Why can a historian not honestly claim to know WHY the speaker is alone, based on this fragment alone?
- 4.Imagine a broken ancient tablet that lists only "...20 jars of oil... ...to the temple... ...on the third day...". Write one reasonable inference and one overstatement a historian should avoid.
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