News

John J. Miller is joined by Jessica Hooten Wilson of Pepperdine University to discuss the poetry of Sappho. John J. Miller is joined by Peter Meilaender of Houghton University to discuss The ...
The centerpiece, the “Brothers” poem (Fr. 9a), made international headlines in 2014 and has been widely translated; many readers will have read it. The other discoveries are less well known. Sappho ...
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 ...
Her name alone means many things. Ancient Greek poet Sappho, who Plato proclaimed the Tenth Muse, inspired the adjective for media around women loving women. She pioneered an eponymous meter ...
“The Complete Poems of Sappho” by Sappho Most of the poems historians have found from Sappho exist only in fragments, but complete poems are not needed to show that she had exceptional talen ...
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.
Sappho and her poems anchor Selby Wynn Schwartz’s debut novel.Credit...Universal History Archive/Getty Images Supported by By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore When you purchase an independently ...
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 may – or may not – have ...
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 (Photo by Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Until it was repealed in 1981, Article 544 of the Italian Penal Code defined rape as a ...