Sappho biography and works
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Sappho
Title: Sappho
Location: Lesbos, Greece
Born: BCE
Died: BCE
Occupation: Poet
Relationships:
- Mother: Cleïs
- Father: Unknown
- Sibling(s): Charaxus
- Spouse/Lover(s): Ceroclas (according to Suïdas)
- Children: Cleïs (daughter, according to Suïdas)
Biography:
Sappho is known to us today as the famous poet of Lesbos, Greece, who lived in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE roughly from c. BCE – BCE. The daughter of Cleïs and an unnamed father and sister to Charaxus, she is universally regarded as the greatest erotic poet of antiquity and was loved by many other poets, such as Archilochus of Paros, Alcaeus of Lesbos, Hipponax of Ephesus, and Anacreon of Teos (Prentice , & ). Due to the nature of her poetry and her close relationship to the girls and women around her, many believe her to have been a lesbian despite having a husband, Cercolas, according to Suïdas (Prentice , & ).
Due to contextual evidence, we can assume that Sappho’s family had good social standing in
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Sappho
Only a handful of details are known about the life of Sappho. She was born around BC to an aristocratic family on the Greek island of Lesbos. Evidence suggests that she had several brothers, married a wealthy man named Cercylas, and had a daughter named Cleis. She spent most of her adult life in the city of Mytilene on Lesbos where she ran an academy for unmarried young women. Sappho’s school devoted itself to the cult of Aphrodite and Eros, and Sappho earned great prominence as a dedicated teacher and poet. A legend from Ovid suggests that she threw herself from a cliff when her heart was broken bygd Phaon, a young sailor, and died at an early age. Other historians posit that she died of old age around BC.
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Sappho
Ancient Greek lyric poet (c. –c. BC)
For other uses, see Sappho (disambiguation).
Sappho (; Greek: ΣαπφώSapphṓ[sap.pʰɔ̌ː]; Aeolic GreekΨάπφωPsápphō; c.&#;&#;– c.&#;&#;BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.[a] Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is extant has mostly survived in fragmentary form; only the Ode to Aphrodite is certainly complete. As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams formerly attributed to Sappho are extant, but these are actually Hellenistic imitations of Sappho's style.
Little is known of Sappho's life. She was from a wealthy family from Lesbos, though her parents' names are uncer