Sappho

Sappho (Attic Greek ????? Sapphô, Aeolic Greek ????? Psappha) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from the city of Eressos on the island of Lesbos, which was a cultural centre in the 7th century BC. She was born sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC. The bulk of her poetry is now lost, but her reputation in her time was immense, and she was reputedly considered by Plato as the tenth Muse.

External links

• "The Poems of Sappho"
• "The Divine Sappho"
• Wiki Classical Dictionary
• The sound of Sappho?
• SAPPHO: The World of Lesbian Poetry
• Sappho from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867)
• John Ezard, The Guardian, June 24, 2005, "After 2,600 years, the world gains a fourth poem by Sappho"
• Martin West, Times Literary Supplement, 21 June 2005, A new Sappho poem