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Sappho was a Greek lyric poet who flourished in the 6th century BCE on Lesbos and has been greatly admired since antiquity for the beauty of her writing style. Her phrasing is concise, direct, and picturesque, and her themes are personal—primarily concerned with the female religious and educational community that met under her leadership.
The Digital Sappho gathers in one place various resources for translating and conducting research on the works attributed to Sappho. It is inspired by, and deeply indebted to, William Annis’ excellent commentary at Aoidoi.org, expanding his original six commentaries to include the entire Sapphic corpus. The Greek text comes from the most ...
Sappho (Attic Greek Σαπφώ Sapphô, Aeolic Greek Ψάπφα Psappha) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Along with the other nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Sappho's poetry was required reading for Greek citizens, and her influence on Greek literature and thought is immeasurable. Virtually every ancient Greek poet and historian praised ...
The “newest Sappho” in the title refers to the new fragments of Sappho as published in a 2015 book edited by Anton Bierl and André Lardinois, The Newest Sappho (P. Obbink and P. GC Inv. 105, frs. 1–5). This book contains not only the new fragments of Sappho as edited by Dirk Obbink but also a set of chapters that comment extensively on ...
B.A.S. Honors in English and Classics. ‘Hymn to Aphrodite’ by Sappho is a classical Greek hymn in which the poet invokes and addresses Aphrodite, the Greek goddess who governs love. In this poem, Sappho expresses her desperation and heartbrokenness, begging Aphrodite to be the poet’s ally. With universal themes such as love, religion ...
In our politics, nobody is 'them', we are 'us'. SAPPHO. It was in the June of 1999 that Eastern India's first self-support group for lesbian, bisexual women and transmasculine persons started - Sappho. The naming came from a legacy of history and literature; Sappho the poetess of Lesbos island in Greece, in the 6th Century BC, the first woman ...
5 days ago · Sappho: 1 n the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC) Example of: Lesbian a resident of Lesbos poetess a woman poet
