eros comes nowhere near her
There used to be some apologetic type theories about what really happened to Jephthah's daughter in the book of Judges--that instead of burning her, Jephthah may have been allowed to let her go into the wilderness and live as a virgin, sacrificing his future heirs rather than the girl. She did spend a couple months lamenting her virginity, but the text is pretty explicit on her ultimate fate. Bat-Jephthah did not live out her days as a sort of proto-anchoress or a virgin in the tradition of Anat, she went up in smoke because her father was a dickhead. I'm not familiar enough with the midrash to know whether or not this interpretation of events goes way back, or whether it's more recent--say, late medieval or onward.
Hoping my nephew's mom doesn't show up for his b-day. I do not want to be in a room with her and my mother-in-law, especially since bro-in-law's going to be exhausted from his twenty-five hour shift. And my nephew is two; he will not know the difference since he never sees her anyway.
Fragment 44a, Sappho (trans. Ann Carson)
]
for goldhaired Phoibos whom Koos' daughter bore
after she mingled with Kronos' highnamed son.
But Artemis wore the great oath of the gods:
By your head! forever virgin shall I be
]untamed on solitary mountains
]Come, nod yes to this for my sake!
So she spoke. Then the father of the blessed gods nodded yes.
Virgin deershooter wild one the gods
call her as her name.
]Eros comes nowhere near her
]
Hoping my nephew's mom doesn't show up for his b-day. I do not want to be in a room with her and my mother-in-law, especially since bro-in-law's going to be exhausted from his twenty-five hour shift. And my nephew is two; he will not know the difference since he never sees her anyway.
Fragment 44a, Sappho (trans. Ann Carson)
]
for goldhaired Phoibos whom Koos' daughter bore
after she mingled with Kronos' highnamed son.
But Artemis wore the great oath of the gods:
By your head! forever virgin shall I be
]untamed on solitary mountains
]Come, nod yes to this for my sake!
So she spoke. Then the father of the blessed gods nodded yes.
Virgin deershooter wild one the gods
call her as her name.
]Eros comes nowhere near her
]