Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

[cahn]

I'm trying to use my other account at least occasionally so I posted about my Yuletide gifts there, including the salon-relevant 12k fic that features Fritz, Heinrich, Voltaire, Fredersdorf, Saint Germain, Caroline Daum (Fredersdorf's wife), and Groundhog Day tropes! (Don't need to know canon.)

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[cahn]

Now, I DID know who Sappho was, and much earlier than 2018 at that! I actually first learned about her as a kid, from reading Marion Zimmer Bradley of dubious memory -- in one of her short stories, the main character, Lythande, sings a lyric that MZB says in the notes to the story is by Sappho, and that it is a clue to Lythande's sexuality. I've seen Sappho a lot of places since then, though, and sapphic is a word...