Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

Few poets in human history have inspired such lasting devotion as Sappho. Yet, for the majority of Sappho’s readers over the millennia, her poetry, composed in the Aeolic dialect, has always been ...

A tattered scrap of papyrus has been found to feature original Sappho poetry dating back to the 7th century BC. Oxford papyrologist Dr. Dirk Obbink was asked to translate the ancient text by the ...

Lyric Feature: Sappho, the great lyric poet of Ancient Greece, had a daughter — but there is no record of the child's father. Poet Theo Dorgan had published a long poem exploring and explaining this ...

In the 6th century BCE, a poetess named Sappho lived on a rocky Greek island far out in the Aegean Sea. She wrote about her love for women in unambiguous terms: “I’d rather see her lovely step, her ...

Her name lives on, not just because of her poetry, but because both she and Lesbos, the island she lived on, have given their name to the love of one woman for another. And so Wendy Beckett’s glitzy, ...

Margaret Mountford: lawyer, businesswoman, tv presenter and, most recently, a doctor in Papyrology. Sappho was one of the few women celebrated on Greek vases When the "new papyrus" was discovered in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Who speaks when Shelley translates Sappho? Fragment 31 presents the reader with a lyric subject that is strangely absent from its own poem: it ...

Once upon a time, legendary lyric poet Sappho was having a really lousy night. And while someone else might have just moped the night away, the poet set her blues to verse. Now, astronomers—who ...