Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

From the lyrical poetry of Sappho in ancient Greece to the poetry and prose of Langston Hughes in the Harlem Renaissance, queer authors have long contributed to the tapestry of world literature.

Apart from of course that she was an Ancient Greek poet, with a strong association to a small Aegean island. However, while presenting a new BBC Four documentary 'Sappho: Love & Life on Lesbos ...

This is Fragment 147 of a poem by Ancient Greek poet and writer Sappho of Lesbos. The commonly translated lines are: “someone I say/ will remember us/ even in another time” and are thought to ...

This University of Bristol research project aims to create a new critical edition of the famous Greek lyric poet Sappho, as well as of her contemporary, Alcaeus. This project aims to fulfil one of the ...

Here the female poet, Sappho, composed passionate love poems addressed to young women in the 7th century BC. Unfortunately only one of her completed odes survives, and in another of these she ...

The specific cultural and performative contexts of ancient Greek poetry are not of interest for Carson. She has much to say about the intricacies of “Sappho’s mind,” but nothing about her ...