Leukas


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Leukas

(ˈluːkəs) or

Leucas

n
(Placename) another name for Levkás
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The Hellenistic comediographer Menander wrote in The Girl from Leukas that Sappho had been the first to take the fatal jump, only to be imitated later by other copy-cat unfortunate lovers.
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and the White Rock of Leukas. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 77: 137-77.
Avestan haecat.aspa-, Rigveda 4.43, and the myth of the divine twins
"Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: 'Reading' the Symbols of Greek Lyric." HSCP 77: 137-77.
Playing the tortoise reading symbols of an ancient folk game

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