Cards Against Sappho The Official LitHum Card Game Just print the cards, read the instructions, and invite your friends for a Symposium! “Someone will remember us I say Even in another round.” Sappho “I could either be a slave on Earth or rule the Underworld if it means I can play this game.” Achilleus “Be sure that I know how fickle men can be.” Penelope, feeling outraged for not winning a round “Gentlemen, I am plastered.” Alcibiades, after having his card chosen by the Card Zeus “Sing, Goddess, the fun of Sappho’s game.” Homer “That’s it. We are changing the syllabus.” The Core Office, after seeing this game Contents Reference Guide * 112 white cards. All the Sappho’s fragments used in this game * 36 black cards. are taken from Anne Carson’s If Not, Winter ​ * This rule book. Try not to burn it like Sappho’s collection, published by Vintage Books. poems. The black cards are mainly literal fragments, Basic Rules with the missing words being replaced by blanks. In some cases, unclear words (they, this, you) were also replaced by blanks in order to To start the game, each player draws five white make the game as fun as Dionysus’ day cards. celebration in Thebes. The player who had the most recent break up The white cards have references to Sappho’s begins as Card Zeus and draws a black card. life, Greek traditions, and Greek literature. Among the works of Literature cited are the Iliad, ​ ​ The Card Zeus reads the question or the Odyssey, Plato’s Symposium, Aeschylus’ ​ ​ ​ ​ fill-in-the-blank phrase on the black card out Oresteia, Euripides’ The Bacchae, and ​ ​ ​ loud. The Card Zeus must read expressively, as Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. ​ ​ if he was Agathon trying to make people appreciate an empty speech. Sappho was, unfortunately, not alive to watch a live performance of the Oresteia or to read many Everyone else answers the question or fills in of these works. However, we believe that, if she the blank anonymously by passing one white was, she would definitely write a poem about card, face down, to the Card Zeus. There is no how drunk Alcibiades was when he delivered his need to worry about grammar: Sappho’s Aeolic speech about Socrates. dialect is crazy even compared to standard Ancient Greek. Some of the white cards are actual cards from Cards Against Humanity. Sappho is so nasty ​ Black cards with two blanks require the players and contemporary sometimes that we do not to play two white cards in combination. Arrange even need to revitalize her. them in the order that the Card Zeus should read them. Finally, you should definitely feel ashamed if you don’t get one of the references. The LitHum final The Card Zeus then shuffles all the answers and is just around the corner. I would be worried. reads each card combination out loud to the group. The Card Zeus re-read the black card before presenting each answer. Finally, the Card Zeus picks the funniest play, and whoever submitted it gets one point. After one round, a new player becomes the Card Zeus and everyone draws back up to five more white cards. Phaon, my straight Achilleus’ overpowered Helen’s surprisingly lover shield touching speech in Hektor’s funeral Mika My ex, Anaktoria A giant horse full of half-naked men Dragging Hektor’s Exchanging armors Getting drunk and corpse three times discussing about around Troy homosexual love Xenia Alcibiades crashing Patroklos and Agathon’s party Achilleus’ bromance My virginity Homosexuality Aphrodite, my one and only friend My problematic brother Homer, that Gender-roles in the misogynous poet Oresteia Extra virgin olive oil Some tasty ambrosia The patriarchy Lattimore’s Swift-footed Achilleus Brilliant Hektor misogynous and boring translations Tydeus’ son Diomedes The man of many ways Summoning the Muse Zeus and Hera being Staying in Ogygia in The ignorance of the siblings order to delay my suitors regarding nostos working with fabric The Laestrygonians, Paris, a closeted Demodocus’ three those drug addicts homosexual disturbing song Pentheus’ drag persona Dionysus destroying a The Bacchae, a crazy whole city cult A misunderstood Circe and her really Being a slave on Earth prophecy impressive magic rather than ruling the Underworld Telemachos Helen slipping a roofie The rage of Achilleus to Menelaos Aristophanes’ shameful The totally non biased Apollo, coming to hiccups trial of Orestes testify Hera anointing herself Executing my My coming of age with sweet olive oil disrespectful maids just to prove I am a man now Shouting at my mom Charybdis’ giant hole One of Scylla's heads because she is crying Agamemnon ghost’s Funeral games Zeus lying he won’t relationship advice intervene anymore Socrates’ social Inviting Socrates to The lover and the loved awkwardness wrestle so he can love one me A bunch of The Sirens singing Ignoring a very androgynous half-men Taylor Swift important prophecy looking forward to be from Cassandra whole again Agamemnon coming Clytemnestra’s murder Pericles’ Funeral home with her mistress weapon Oration pretending it’s fine The Athenian response The Sicilian Expedition Pouring libations to the Spartan ultimatum Killing my mom and A chorus of Asian The vengeful Furies going crazy women Dressing up as a wolf The biased will of Zeus Refusing to fight and going on a KGB because my friends operation took my slave Agamemnon, a king Andromache carrying Burning the ships with confidence issues her son around in the middle of a war Burning the ships Asking for a God to Asking for a God to (again) burn the ships protect the ships Complaining about my Fleeing a duel because Hitting someone in the extremely dramatic fate the Gods wanted so tight The unimportant and Princess Nausicaa Finding a naked unloved sons of Priam stranger at the beach and taking him to my palace Disguising yourself Not revealing yourself Divine ventriloquism to your family Young boys with no Older boys with the first Hubris signs of beard signs of beard appearing appearing A lot of hubris The messenger’s Homer’s depiction of speech women in the Odyssey The striking parallel Dramatic irony Being torn apart by my between Clytemnestra mom and Penelope The tragic hero’s My lyre The sky I cannot think anagnorisis of touching with my two arms You Exactly what you were Demanding to be expecting worshiped as the one true God Lesbians (the sexual Lesbians (the Dead orientation) nationality) Reciting my whole Priam’s carriage The ghost of my mom genealogy in the middle of a battle My loyal nurse Sacrificing my offspring Throwing my spear to the gods Running in circles What, O Sappho, is Some men say an army ____________ wronging you? of horse and some men reminded me of say an army on foot Anaktoria, who is gone. and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is ____________. In fact she herself once You will remember You, I want blamed me, ____________, for we in ____________ to suffer. Kyprogeneneia, our youth did these In myself I am aware of because I prayed this things. this. word: ____________. Who honored me by I long and seek after What burns me? giving their works? ____________. And I will pour wine ____________. As long Then the maidens sang over ____________. as you want. a holy song and straight up the air went amazing sound: ____________. And everywhere in the roads was ____________. PICK 2 You came and I was ____________, having What country girl crazy for ___________. come from heaven seduces your wits, And ____________ wrapped in a purple wearing a country cooled my mind that cloak. dress, not knowing how burned with longing. to pull the cloth to her ankles? PICK 2 But I love ________ and I swear I did not love ____________ for me this to me desire has _____________. away from allotted. ____________. PICK 2 ____________ might Never more damaging But if not, I want to accomplish O Eirana have I remind you of ____________. encountered you than _____________, and when you were beautiful times we had. ____________. PICK 2 And I answered her: I simply want to be But she goes back and ____________, go. And ____________. forth remembering remember me. ______________. These things of the What do I still yearn Hymenaios! The Kleanaktidai exile. for? bridegroom is Memories terribly _____________. leaked away: ___________. To what, O beloved But I am not someone _____________, so very bridegroom, may I who likes delicate a girl. compare you? _____________. Rather I have a quiet mind. Yet if you had a desire ____________ do not ____________: far more for good or beautiful move stones. sweetsounding than a things and your tongue lyre, golder than gold. were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes, but rather you would speak about what is just: ____________. ____________!.