• Lesbos in Love is a Chilean musical duo formed in Santiago by Jazmin Avendaño and Tonko Yutronic. Lesbos in Love formed in 2000 in Santiago, Chile as a...
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    Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos). The name appears in Late Bronze Age Hittite texts as Lazpa (Hittite: 𒆷𒊍𒉺 Lāzpa). The earliest reference to Lesbos in Greek texts...
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  • Vampyros Lesbos, Franco began working on his next film, She Killed in Ecstasy (1971). Vampyros Lesbos was released on July 15, 1971, in Germany and in Spain...
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    Sappho (redirect from Sappho of Lesbos)
    Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho was widely...
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    Oyarzún Leonor Varela Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan Lesbos in love Lev Yashin LGBT rights in Chile Liberal Alliance (1891) Liberal Democratic Party...
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    resettle elsewhere in Europe. In 2015, over half a million people arrived in Lesbos. The number of individuals coming through Lesbos has dwindled since...
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    Sapphism (redirect from Sapphic love)
    whose verses mainly focused on love between women and her own homosexual passions. She was born on the Greek island Lesbos, which also inspired the term...
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  • Methymna, a city at Lesbos). Among Macareus' other daughters were Mytilene, Agamede, Antissa, Arisbe and Issa all eponyms of cities at Lesbos. His sons were...
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    (Chilean band) Hetroertzen Illapu Inti-Illimani Kudai La Ley (band) Lesbos in love Los Jaivas Los Miserables (band) Los Prisioneros Los Tetas Los Tres...
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    Lesbian (redirect from Lesbo)
    mentioning the island of Lesbos, and so could be construed to mean 'from the island of Lesbos'. In 1875, George Saintsbury, in writing about Baudelaire's...
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    Phaon (category Characters in Greek mythology)
    In Greek mythology, Phaon (Ancient Greek: Φάων; gen.: Φάωνος) was a mythical boatman of Mytilene in Lesbos. He was old and ugly when Aphrodite came to...
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    Longus (category People from ancient Lesbos)
    Nothing is known of his life; it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD. It has been suggested...
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  • Aliartos municipality Petra, Lesbos, a village and former municipality on the island of Lesbos Petra, Pieria, a former municipality in Pieria regional unit Petra...
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  • Sappho 31 (category Love poems)
    archaic Greek lyric poem by the ancient Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι) after the opening...
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  • poet's name in italics. Notably, the word "lesbian" derives from Lesbos, due to the description of female homosexual love prominently featured in the poetry...
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    year in midsummer. The festival, which was evidently already celebrated in Lesbos by Sappho's time, seems to have first become popular in Athens in the...
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  • there was an increase in migrant arrivals in the Moria Refugee Camp in Lesbos, Greece, and disease was breaking out. Help Refugees put out a message...
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    Orpheus and Eurydice (category Love stories)
    Maenads in a frenzied mood. His head remained fully intact and still sang as it floated in the water before washing up on the island of Lesbos. According...
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    friend". Sappho, a poet from the island of Lesbos, wrote many love poems addressed to women and girls. The love in these poems is sometimes requited, and...
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  • Trambelus (category Characters in Greek mythology)
    Trambelus as his own. According to Parthenius, Trambelus lived on Lesbos where he fell in love with a girl named Apriate, but she rejected all his advances...
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    Orpheus (category Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid)
    carried them to the island of Lesbos, at the city of Methymna; there, the inhabitants buried his head and a shrine was built in his honour near Antissa; there...
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    Aeolic Greek (category Languages extinct in the 3rd century BC)
    Ancient Greek spoken mainly in Boeotia; in Thessaly; in the Aegean island of Lesbos; and in the Greek colonies of Aeolis in Anatolia and adjoining islands...
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    Alcaeus (category Poets from ancient Lesbos)
    lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets...
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    Les fêtes d'Hébé (category Greek and Roman deities in fiction)
    festivities celebrating the arts. Scene: A grove On the island of Lesbos, the love of the two poets Sappho and Alcaeus is harmed by the jealous Thelemus...
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    (left, in a pink robe). They are seated on a stone bench with a high curved back amid the foliage of a garden in Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos. Sappho...
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    Fellatio (redirect from Cum in mouth)
    whipping. Galienus called fellatio lesbiari since women of the island of Lesbos were supposed to have introduced the practice of using one's lips to give...
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    Hayreddin Barbarossa (category People from Lesbos)
    the mid-16th century. Born on Lesbos, Khizr began his naval career as a corsair under his elder brother Oruç Reis. In 1516, the brothers captured Algiers...
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    of the month was used in Ionic territories, in Athens, in the islands of the Aegean and in the cities of Asia Minor. At Lesbos and Epidauros the month...
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  • Philogyny (category Love)
    Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. In ancient times, Sappho was widely...
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    Adonis (category LGBTQ themes in Greek mythology)
    by Greek women every year in midsummer. The festival, which was evidently already celebrated in Lesbos by Sappho's time in the seventh century BC, seems...
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