Sappho fresco (Public domain/via Wikimedia) John J. Miller is joined by Jessica Hooten Wilson of Pepperdine University to discuss the poetry of Sappho. To Read the Full Story ...

The Greek island of Lefkada is known for its breathtaking landscape, but few know its dark ancient past of love and death.

Sappho West End in - Sappho Poet. Lover. Legend. Fusing ancient poetry with modern music, Greek chorus with contemporary dance, Sappho is a thrilling adult fairy tale of mythic proportions that ...

Sculpture of the Greek poet Sappho, 1880. (Photo by Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Until it was repealed in 1981, Article 544 of the Italian Penal Code defined rape as a ...

In poem 85, the famous poet Catullus laments, “Odi et amo, quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? ... a name closely alluding to the love poems of Sappho of ancient Lesbos.

Sappho’s poetry, what’s left of it, teaches us that we have only ever lived or loved in pieces and parts. “Our lives are the lines missing from the fragments,” Schwartz writes.

She is well known for quality of her poetry, and for being the first known woman writer of Greco-Roman antiquity; indeed, she is perhaps the best-known woman writer of all time. From Sappho of Lesbos ...