IT is gratifying to find in Mr. Percy Mackaye's already widely advertised dramatic poem, "Sappho and Phaon," (Macmillan ... for the spirit of Greek life and art is shown to be allied with ...

Charles Mengin, Sappho, 1877, oil on canvas, Manchester Art Gallery One of history’s most romanticized ... the Ionian Sea from the Leucadian cliffs for her love of the ferryman Phaon. Whether the ...

Sappho’s longing is plain on her face, while Erinna, heavy-lidded, eyes the viewer, her dress slipping off her shoulder. The painting, “Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene,” is likely ...

I must remind myself that somewhere in the world, the author of Sappho's Leap ... jumped to her death over the love of a ferryman named Phaon. From these few details, Jong imagines the life ...