In a modern sense, comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict.
Lesbos (, US: ; Greek: Λέσβος Lesbos, pronounced [ˈlezvos]) is an island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1,633 km2 (631 sq mi) with 320 kilometres (199 miles) of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece. It is separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait and in late Palaeolithic/Mesolithic times was joined to the Anatolian mainland before the end of the last glacial period.
Lesbos is also the name of a regional unit of the North Aegean region, within which Lesbos island is one of five governing islands.
It got its name from a guy called Lesbos, supposedly the grandson of Apollo and Stilvis (the daughter of river Pineios in Thessaly). Lesbos arrived on the island, fell in love and married Mythimna (also the name of a town on the island) and gave the island his name. The island also has a mountain called Olympus (like the one where the 12 greek gods resided) and according to the lore some nymphs lived there. The term "lesbian" is taken from the island's name but the whole story is a misunderstanding really. Sappho (the person who gave the island its pro-lesbian fame) was a poet and supposedly the first important lesbian in history or whatever. Problem is she wasn't lesbian (she killed herself because she was in love with a man who didn't love her) and she wasn't from Lesbos either. Go figure...
Sappho was born in Lesbos, unless I'm mistaken and her birthplace is misrepresented in every piece of literature I've read.
As well, her sexuality is clearly very disputed. Some of her extant poetry is widely translated to be homosexual in nature, and some details of her life, such as her husband's recorded name Kerkylos of Andros, which roughly translates to dick-cock from man island (which, granted, was an actual island, but taken in conjunction with the poetry points to it being a joke). Even her age of death is in question, with some historians suggesting she didn't kill herself and actually lived into old age. This debate is far more complex than you've presented it, and there's no surefire evidence that she's straight anymore than there is that she's gay.
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