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rel: If Not Winter, Fragments by Anne Carson Praxilla
As portrayed by Sappho, Anactoria is likely to have been an aristocratic follower of hers, of marriageable age. It is possible that fragment 16 was written in connection with her wedding to an unknown man.
…or an archetypal creation of Sappho’s imagination.
Sappho compares her desire for Anactoria, who is described as being absent, with that of Helen of Troy for Paris.
Sappho describes her manner of walking as attractive, and her face as having amarychma, a word literally meaning ‘flashing’ or ‘sparkling’ and likely also to indicate beauty in movement.