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.

Sappho’s work is lyrical and emotional. She talks about her love of women and femininity in all its forms. She frequently appeals to Aphrodite, the goddess of Love, for help in her relationships.

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 ...

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

Sappho, a lyric poet writing in Ancient Greece around 2,600 years ago, may be the archetypical tortured poet. Her work, which would have been set to music, was so popular in the ancient world that ...

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 ...

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.

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.