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Love may be timeless, but the way we talk about it isn’t

Centuries before Christianity the Greeks had their own ideas about desire - Erotic love was not a pleasant diversion but a high-stakes trial to be survived, quivering with perilous energy

The Cape of Lefkata – Where lovers leapt to their death from Homeric times (drone video)

It is also known as Sappho's Leap