Richmond Lattimore’s anthology “Greek Lyrics,” first published in 1955, includes nine texts attributed to Sappho, though in one case he acknowledges that this attribution is questionable.

Efforts to erase Sappho had their effect, and by the 12th century, a Byzantine scholar was already grumbling that “both Sappho and her works, the lyrics and the songs, have been trashed by time.” ...

Jamie James is the author of "Andrew and Joey: A Novel." No poet of antiquity has been more widely adored than the Greek lyric poet Sappho, the most influential woman in world literature until ...

With her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift joins in a tradition that goes back to the writers of ancient Greece.

The more intact lyric contains biographical tidbits, mentioning Sappho’s brothers Charaxus and Larichus; the second is a moan of unrequited love.

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus ...

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 ...

The Greek poet Sappho, who lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. on, invented the lyric meltdown. She was an initiate of Eros, which she characterized as an irrational force, a dread ...

Love of women But Sappho was no epic poet, rather she composed lyrics: short, sweet verses on a variety of topics from hymns to the gods, marriage songs, and mini-tales of myth and legend.