Anactoria

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Anactoria (or Anaktoria) is the name of a woman mentioned by Sappho as a lover of hers in Fragment 16 (Lobel-Page edition) [1]. Fragment 31 is traditionally called the "Ode to Anactoria", though no name appears in it (A. C. Swinburne, quoted in Lipking 1988). Anactoria is also mentioned in Sappho's "To an Army Wife, in Sardis."

Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote a long poem titled Anactoria, in which Sappho addresses Anactoria in imagery that includes sadomasochism, cannibalism, and dystheism.[2] Lipking (1988) discusses Swinburne's poem.

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Lipking, Lawrence I. (1988). Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition. University of Chicago Press. pp. 92–96. ISBN 0-286-48452-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=51hqhyw5yLoC. Retrieved on 2007-08-17. 

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