House of the Muses #9

Winner of the 2008 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant for outstanding writing and storytelling

Mnasidika tries to pull her life together after Timas’ death, but before the Hetairai can even begin to mourn, Gorgo calls Sappho to Tribunal to be tried for the girl’s murder! Event after event unravels, and Mika attempts to return to the House of the Muses only to find Sappho has not forgotten her part. The morning Sappho’s body washes ashore on the beach in Mytilene, that very night Dika finds those responsible for Sappho’s death and metes out her own brand of justice.

Pam Harrison

Standard Comic
Full Color
Page Count: 52

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Scholars have for centuries set aside one perplexing poem inexplicably written in Spartan dialect from the Ennead, the nine books authored by Sappho. Why Sappho kept this poem in her collection has never been explained. Sappho had among her students a girl named Mnasidika, a Spartan name that means, ‘In Remembrance of Justice’. Another translated restoration of a little-known poem of Sappho”s, shredded by the early Church and left in fragments because of its ‘offensive” subject matter revealed a haunting tale of ‘immortal lovers”. The details of this novel are derived primarily from the works of Alkaios, not Sappho, in his recounting of their early youth during the Civil War in Mytilene, the War with Athens, and the activities of the House of Penthilos. Many are unaware–or their understanding uncertain–about the part the Poetess of Mytilene played in the court intrigues, political upheavals and assassination plots of the time. Recipient of the 2008 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant for Outstanding Series!

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