Sappho
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Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, known for writing emotionally expressive poetry about love and desire, as depicted in this vase painting from around 510 BC. Though most of her work survives only in fragments today, she is considered one of the most important poets of ancient Greece and has had a lasting influence on Western literature.
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Sappho (pronounced /ˈsæfoʊ/ in English; Attic Greek Σαπφώ IPA: , Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω ) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the canonical list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through
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thumb|right|Kalpis painting of Sappho by the [[Sappho Painter ( 510BC)|alt=Vase painting of a woman holding a lyre.]]
Sappho ( Sapphṓ ; Aeolic Greek Psápphō; ) was an Ancient 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 not 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 have survived, but these are actually Hellenistic imitations of Sappho's style.