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Ancient Greek vase painting showing Sappho playing a lyre

Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives. Only one poem is known to be complete; in some cases as little as a single word survives. Modern editions of Sappho's poetry are the product of centuries of scholarship, first compiling quotations from surviving ancient works, and from the late 19th century rediscovering her works preserved on fragments of ancient papyri and parchment. Along with the poems which can be attributed with confidence to Sappho, a small number of surviving fragments in her Aeolic dialect may be by either her or her contemporary Alcaeus. Modern editions of Sappho also collect ancient "testimonia" which discuss Sappho's life and works.

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Poetry of Sappho

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Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives. Only...

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Sappho

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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...

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Sappho 31

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Sappho 31 is an archaic Greek lyric poem by the ancient Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι)...

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Anactoria

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the Ancient Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE. Sappho names Anactoria as the object of her desire in a poem...

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Ode to Aphrodite

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The Ode to Aphrodite (or Sappho fragment 1) is a lyric poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries...

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Sappho 16

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Sappho 16 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known...

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Sappho 94

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Sappho 94, sometimes known as Sappho's Confession, is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho. The poem is written as a conversation between...

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Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene

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companion of Sappho on Lesbos during the late 7th century BC (a common misconception at that time, possibly due to a fragment of Sappho's poetry mentioning...

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Lesbian flags

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included in Paragraph 175 of the German criminal code). The color violet became associated with lesbians via the poetry of Sappho. The lipstick lesbian flag...

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Lists of poems

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by Wilfred Owen Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Poetry of Sappho List of Tolkien's alliterative verse List of poetry anthologies List of poetry collections...

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Pride flag

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included in Paragraph 175 of the German criminal code). The color violet became associated with lesbians via the poetry of Sappho. The lipstick lesbian flag...

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Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythology

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eloquence, respectively, onto male lovers. In the poetry of Sappho, Aphrodite is identified as the patron of lesbians. Achilles and Patroclus Achilles and...

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Tithonus poem

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edition of Sappho. The poem is from Book IV of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry. It was first published in 1922, after a fragment of papyrus...

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Catullus 51

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Catullus' poems, the meter of this poem is the sapphic meter. This meter is more musical, seeing as Sappho mainly sang her poetry. Catullus is not the only...

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Aeolic verse

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classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus...

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Anne Carson

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Orestes, and The Bacchae) – as well as the poetry of Sappho in English. First editions of Carson's seven books of translations have been published by Alfred...

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Sappho and Phaon

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Sappho and Phaon was traditionally identified as being a sketch for Paris and Helen. It may also have recalled the painting Sappho Singing her Poetry...

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Sappho 2

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Sappho 2 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. In antiquity it was part of Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry...

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Ibycus

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Ibycus' role in the development of Greek lyric poetry was as a mediator between eastern and western styles: Sappho and Alcaeus wrote while Stesichorus...

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Literary fragment

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in the case of the poetry of Sappho, as well as quotations from works that have never been found, such as in the work of Heraclitus. Sappho Heraclitus...

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Lyric poetry

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Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent...

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Sappho 44

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of the third century AD. Fragment 44 is the longest piece of Sappho's poetry preserved. A second papyrus, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2076, confirms Sappho's...

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Greek lyric

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small sampling of lyric poetry from Archaic Greece, the period when it first flourished, survives. For example, the poems of Sappho are said to have filled...

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The Songs of Bilitis

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in the manner of Sappho; the collection's introduction claims they were found on the walls of a tomb in Cyprus, written by a woman of Ancient Greece...

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Alcaeus of Mytilene

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festival. The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry "reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards...

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Pederasty in ancient Greece

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endearment such as a parent might use, found also in the poetry of Sappho and a designation of only relative age. Both art and other literary references...

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