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Daisy Dunn

Daisy Dunn
Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and the author of The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World, The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet, and The Poems of Catullus: A New Translation. She read Classics at Oxford before receiving an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute and her PhD from UCL. She lives in London, England. Her website is www.daisydunn.co.uk.
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The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

Daisy Dunn on Sappho's Genre-Defying Verses and the Invention of the Term “Lesbian”
July 30, 2024  By Daisy Dunn
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My Longest Healthy Relationship is with the Dead Poet Catullus

The Story of a Poet Told Through His Poems
July 27, 2016  By Daisy Dunn
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