did lesbians ever live on the island lesvos?

Answer 1

Sappho was an Ancient Greek lyric poetess, born in Eresos on the island of Lesbos.
Because some of her love poems were addressed to women, she has long been considered to have had homosexual inclinations. The word lesbian itself is derived from the name of the island of Lesbos from which she came. (Her name is also the origin of its much rarer synonym sapphic.) The narrators of many of her poems do in fact speak of infatuations and love (sometimes requited, sometimes not) for various women, but descriptions of actual physical acts between women are few and subject to debate. Whether these poems are meant to be autobiographical is not known, although elements of other parts of Sappho's life do make appearances in her work, and it would be compatible with her style to have these intimate encounters expressed poetically, as well.

Answer 2

I think you mean Lesbos, and does it really matter if lesbians lived there or not?

The word lesbian derives from Lesbos (Λέσβος), a Greek island located in the East Aegean Sea. Lesbos was the home of the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho and the site of an all-girls school [1] she ran in the 6th century BC. Many of her poems are about her passion for her students, termed in antiquity gynerasty, the female counterpart to male pederasty. Sappho's literary association with love between females has led to the term lesbian having its modern meaning, as well as its rarer synonym Sapphism.

Other words used to describe lesbianism over the past 2000 years have included tribadism, Amor lesbicus, and urningtum.

Answer 3

No.
Lesbians is a name given to female homosexuals because of the ancient poetess Sappho, who lived on Lesvos and devoted many of her poems to other women.
The point is that men were seamen always at sea and women tried to content each other when alone; that's how the whole story began.
Nowadays, there are some lesbian communities on the island -just for the sake of it- but very moderate and extremely discrete.

Answer 4

yeah, it is a typical New England state, but it is about the size of some western counties...Rhode Island is charming and interesting. real or fake what? does it matter if you can't tell the difference? There are fake diamonds and rubies and emeralds that even experts have a hard time discerning, and since jewelry is just a decoration and is ridiculously expensive, I'd go with the fake. save thousands and tens of thousands of dollars, insurance is lower, and be able to spend money on more important things. Same goes for boobs...if you can't tell the difference, does it matter?

Answer 5

That's where the word came from.
Sappho, who lived on the island, wrote of female love.

Answer 6

Yes, on Sappho and there is still an island in Greece, not sure if it is the same island, that has only lesbians on it today. Yes, right now in 2006.

Answer 7

Yes, and yes.
I Cr 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!
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Answer 8

I'm fairly sure that - at some time - some distant time in history - and both more recently and even now, that the answer is 'yes.'

Does that meet your needs?

Sash.

Answer 9

http://www.lesvos.com/history.html Yep, the odds are they some have, some gay men, too, I presume; and probably some village idiots also.

Answer 10

yes every summer in the seaside place of Eressos!
I f you are a dyke don't missed that.!!