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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...