After Sappho

by Selby Wynn Schwartz

In 1804 the men passed Article 340, which strictly forbade paternity claims. All children were fatherless at birth, they reasoned, a father is fashioned only by marriage: pater is est quem nuptiae demonstrant.

and at the same time the Poetics of Aristotle gave a clearer view of literature than any novel by Henry James.