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Hades

also: Ἀΐδας, Ἀῖδα

Lord of the dead; his 'house' in fr. 55 is where the unremembered woman will flit unseen among the dim dead. In Sappho the underworld is not punishment but obscurity.

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Fragments of Books Three and Four poem · 1 mention

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