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Charaxos

also: Χάραξος

Sappho's brother, a sea-trader. Herodotus says he shipped Lesbian wine to Egypt and ruinously ransomed the courtesan Rhodopis there, and that Sappho mocked him for it in a poem. The Brothers Poem turns on the wait for his homecoming.

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The Brothers Poem and the Kypris Poem poem · 1 mention

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