Sappho
Sappho (; ''Sapphṓ'' ; Aeolic Greek ''Psápphō''; BC}}) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is extant has mostly survived in fragmentary form; only the Ode to Aphrodite is certainly complete. As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams formerly attributed to Sappho are extant, but these are actually Hellenistic imitations of Sappho's style.Little is known of Sappho's life. She was from a wealthy family from Lesbos, though her parents' names are uncertain. Ancient sources say that she had three brothers: Charaxos, Larichos and Eurygios. Two of them, Charaxos and Larichos, are mentioned in the Brothers Poem discovered in 2014. She was exiled to Sicily around 600BC, and may have continued to work until around 570BC. According to legend, she killed herself by leaping from the Leucadian cliffs due to her unrequited love for the ferryman Phaon.
Sappho was a prolific poet, probably composing around 10,000 lines. She was best-known in antiquity for her love poetry; other themes in the surviving fragments of her work include family and religion. She probably wrote poetry for both individual and choral performance. Most of her best-known and best-preserved fragments explore personal emotions and were probably composed for solo performance. Her works are known for their clarity of language, vivid images, and immediacy. The context in which she composed her poems has long been the subject of scholarly debate; the most influential suggestions have been that she had some sort of educational or religious role, or wrote for the symposium.
Sappho's poetry was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, and she was among the canon of Nine Lyric Poets most highly esteemed by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. Sappho's poetry is still considered extraordinary and her works continue to influence other writers. Beyond her poetry, she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women, with the English words ''sapphic'' and ''lesbian'' deriving from her name and that of her home island, respectively. Provided by Wikipedia
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Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1964
Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1964
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New York : Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2001
New York : Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2001
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002
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London : New York : Williams and Norgate ; C. Scribner's, 1924
London : New York : Williams and Norgate ; C. Scribner's, 1924
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Amsterdam : LIBERAC, 1974
Amsterdam : LIBERAC, 1974
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[New York] New York University Press, 1965
[New York] New York University Press, 1965
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Paris, B. Grasset, 1932
Paris, B. Grasset, 1932
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Paris, Chaillou-Potrelle, 1829
Paris, Chaillou-Potrelle, 1829
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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1974
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1974
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Quedlinburg : Beckerschen Buchhandlung, 1833
Quedlinburg : Beckerschen Buchhandlung, 1833
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Bologna : [G. Romagnoli], 1863
Bologna : [G. Romagnoli], 1863
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Hamburgi : Apud Abrahamum Vandenhoeck, 1733
Hamburgi : Apud Abrahamum Vandenhoeck, 1733
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