1. Sappho - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia sappho (Attic Greek sap , Aeolic Greek psap ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Sappho From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For other uses, see Sappho (disambiguation) Sappho pronounced /ˈs¦foʊ/ in English; Attic Greek IPA [sapːʰɔː] Aeolic Greek [psapːʰɔː] ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet , born on the island of Lesbos . In history and poetry texts, she is sometimes associated with the city of Mytilene on Lesbos (Carson 2002); she was also said to have been born in Eresos , another city on Lesbos. Her birth was sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments. Contents Life Chronology Family Exile ... edit Life Sappho by Gustav Klimt The only contemporary source which refers to Sappho's life is her own body of poetry, and scholars have largely rejected a biographical reading of it. Later biographical traditions, from which all more detailed accounts derive, have also been cast into doubt. edit Chronology Strabo says that Sappho was the contemporary of Alcaeus (born ca. 620 BC) and

2. Isle Of Lesbos: Poetry Of Sappho This page includes a brief biography, a selection of texts of various fragments of sappho s poems, and links to further reading materials both online and http://www.sappho.com/poetry/sappho.html

Lesbian Poetry Historical Poetry Contemporary Poetry Resources for Poets and Readers Lesbian Poetry FAQ ... Historical : Sappho Sappho circa 630 B.C. One of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world, Sappho was born some time between 630 and 612 BC. She was an aristocrat who married a prosperous merchant, and she had a daughter named Cleis. Her wealth afforded her with the opportunity to live her life as she chose, and she chose to spend it studying the arts on the isle of Lesbos. In the seventh century BC, Lesbos was a cultural center. Sappho spent most her time on the island, though she also traveled widely throughout Greece. She was exiled for a time because of political activities in her family, and she spent this time in Sicily. By this time she was known as a poet, and the residents of Syracuse were so honored by her visit that they erected a statue to her. Sappho was called a lyrist because, as was the custom of the time, she wrote her poems to be performed with the accompaniment of a lyre. Sappho composed her own music and refined the prevailing lyric meter to a point that it is now known as

3. Sappho Page This page is devoted to understanding the poetry of sappho, designed and organized by Robin MitchellBoyask, Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Classics http://www.temple.edu/classics/sappho.html

Sappho This page is devoted to understanding the poetry of Sappho. While anyone interested in Sappho will find this information useful, it has been designed primarily for students and teachers of Intellectual Heritage 51, a Core Humanities course at Temple University. This page is designed and organized by Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Classics at Temple University. He can be reached at ROBINM@VM.TEMPLE.EDU. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Images of Sappho Sappho reading Sappho and Alcaeus Information about Sappho Overview with links (taken from Perseus) Information about poetry during Sappho's era Bibliography of scholarship on Sappho Historical background on social and political conditions during Sappho's era ... Picture of Lesbos Aphrodite Since the goddess Aphrodite is a central figure in Sappho's poetry, you will find it useful to know more about her. Overview (with links from Perseus) The myth of the birth of Aphrodite The myth of Aphrodite and the mortal Anchises The potential wrath of Aphrodite, as seen in the opening lines of Euripides' tragedy, ... Go to Classics Home Page

4. Sappho sappho was born in the late 700s BCE on Lesbos, one of the larger islands in the Aegean, near Lydia (now Turkey). Lesbos was important for trade between http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/sappho.html

Return to the index of "Other Women's Voices." Updated 03-14-08 Sappho (c.600 BCE) "SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER US... EVEN IN ANOTHER TIME." Sappho was born in the late 700s BCE on Lesbos, one of the larger islands in the Aegean, near Lydia (now Turkey). Lesbos was important for trade between mainland Greece and the kingdoms of Asia; it was also a cultural center. Sappho was probably from an aristocratic family of the city of Mytiline; she probably married and had at least one daughter. She may have spent some time in exile in Sicily. Her poetry suggests that she was the center of a closely-knit group of women; we don't know if this was some kind of an academy or a chorus of singers. We do know that Sappho composed epithalamia (marriage songs) for performance by a group. But her preferred form seems to have been songs to be sung or recited by an individual to the accompaniment of a lyre, some perhaps for religious or civic festivals. Almost 200 fragments of Sappho's poetry are extant, but many of these are only a word or a few words. One poem, usually called the "Hymn to Aphrodite," may be complete, but we aren't sure. Even from fragments we can tell that Sappho had the ability to look at herself and others clearly - often ironically - and the ability to make us hear her voice. On this page you'll find: Links to helpful sites online.

5. Mythography | The Greek Poet Sappho Learn about the Greek poet sappho and how her poems relate to Greek mythology. http://www.loggia.com/myth/sappho.html

home greek poets Sappho The Greek Poet Sappho Sappho was an ancient Greek poet who infused her works with intense emotions - especially love, desire, longing, and their companion, suffering. She crafted her poems primarily as a tribute to the private world of women, something from which we are generally excluded in Greek literature. Therefore the poems provide us with a valuable and remarkable glimpse into the lives and aspirations of Greek girls. In some respects, they could be termed "romantic", but Sappho transcends her subject with such a moving, insightful, and poignant power that the poems are still highly relevant even today. Simply stated, she created some of the most vibrant love poetry ever composed. Naturally, someone as intimately concerned with love as Sappho would be drawn to the irresistible realm of the goddess of love. And indeed, Aphrodite plays a significant role in many of Sappho's poems. It is to this goddess that Sappho addresses several of her works. In some cases, it seems as if the poet were a supplicant, begging Aphrodite for mercy from the ravages of unrequited love; in others, Sappho sings joyfully of the beautiful deity, and the poems are like graceful gifts to this golden goddess: "Leave Krete and come to this holy temple where the graceful grove of apple trees circles an altar smoking with frankincense.

6. The Divine Sappho The Divine sappho, classic English versions of sappho, featuring Henry Thornton Wharton s sappho. http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/sappho/

Fragments Sappho's Life Also here Links Danish composer and writer Henrik W. Gade invites you to enjoy midi versions of Lesbos as you explore Sappho: Lesbos 1 Lesbos 2 Lesbos 3 Lesbos 4 , or Lesbos 5 . (see Gades' Sappho Fragments in translation First line index. Miscellaneous fragments (121-170) are not indexed. Sappho fragments from H.T. Wharton's 1895 Sappho. The famous Wharton collection includes 170 fragments, some with many translations by such fine writers as J.H. Merivale, Swinburne and J.A. Symonds. Wharton with Unicode Greek. H. T. Wharton's Life of Sappho Family and times Sappho and Phaon Sappho's girlfriends (Victorian view) Sappho's beauty and the ancients ... Later views (includes Swinburne on translating Sappho Portrayals in comedy and drama Works and meters Some favorites: Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne ... Uni That man seems to me peer of gods ... Uni ... Uni Also here at The Divine Sappho Friends of Sappho Guest contributions to the appreciation of Sappho and her poetry. Sarah Ruden reads Sappho fr. 31 (Requires RealAudio) Poet and classicist Sarah Ruden has kindly permitted her reading of fr. 31 (= Wharton 2) to appear here. Visit the

7. The Poems Of Sappho -- Index The translations are from The Poems of sappho, with Historical and Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography by Edwin Marion Cox, Published 1925. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sappho/index.htm

Sacred-Texts The Classics Sacred Sexuality Neo-Paganism The Poems of Sappho Translated by Edwin Marion Cox [1925] Transliterated by J.B. Hare [2000] Introduction by J.B. Hare System of Greek Transliteration Part I Part II ... Index of First Lines Related Material Sappho in Unicode The Songs of Bilitis H.T. Wharton's Sappho [external site]

8. The Classics Pages - Sappho The ancient Greek poet, sappho of Lesbos a small selection of fragments of her poetry in Greek. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/sappho.htm

Sappho: Poet of Fire Fragments of Sappho's Poetry She was a Lesbian Let's say at the start that the least interesting thing about Sappho (or Psappho as she preferred to be known) was the one that preoccupied later Greeks, Romans and most of those today who couldn't read a line of her poetry, and for whom she exists merely a brand. Let it suffice that she was a Lesbian because she came from Lesbos, and that "sapphic" was one of her innovatory metres. Broken pieces Two complete poems survive out of nine books. Of the rest only fragments exist - broken sherds of poems as tantalising as pieces of broken pottery. And, like a fragment of a vase (which is physically indestructible), her fragments are strong, with that "fresh as the day they were made" appeal. (Remember the Greek word we translate as poet means simply "maker".) Curiously enough, one of her longer fragments is actually preserved on a pocket-sized piece of broken pottery: an Egyptian fan had copied it out, presumably to carry around with him/her. More than most poetry, the fragments are untranslatable. I give you the Greek (without going into scholarly dispute about emendations), and enough information for those (greekless or not) who wish to process the information. If you click on the ear, you can hear an approximation to the original sound - might take a while if you have a slow connection.

9. About Sappho Of Lesbos sappho of Lesbos, ancient Greek poet, is known for her emotional and personal poems even though little of her writing survives. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_sappho.htm

zGCID=" test0" zGCID+=" test14" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Education Women's History Art, Music, Writers, Media ... Sappho About Sappho of Lesbos Women's History Education Women's History Essentials ... Help Sappho of Lesbos (wrote about 610-580 B.C.E.) poet Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, is known through her work: ten books of verse published by the third and second centuries B.C.E. By the Middle Ages, all copies were lost. Today what we know of the poetry of Sappho is only through quotations in the writings of others. Only one poem from Sappho survives in complete form, and the longest fragment of Sappho poetry is only 16 lines long. The poems of Sappho are more personal and emotional than political or civic or religious, especially compared to her contemporary, the poet Alcaeus. Sappho lived in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, where women often congregated and, among other social activities, shared poetry they'd written. Sappho's poems usually focus on the relationships among women. This focus has given rise to speculation that Sappho's interest in women was what today would be called homosexual or lesbian. (The word "lesbian" comes from the island of Lesbos and the communities of women there.) This may be an accurate description of Sappho's feelings towards women, but it may also be accurate that it was more acceptable in the past pre-Freud for women to express strong passions towards one another, whether the attractions were sexual or not.

10. Sappho Anne Carson, If Not, Winter Fragments of sappho (New York Alfred Knopf, 2002), bilingual edition, Greek and English with missing material indicated in http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/sappho/

Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta's World Literature Website HOME INDEX CONTACT INFO HOME ... CREDITS Sappho (b. 630 BC) Biographical Information Main Works Selected Quotations Links Biographical Information Sappho, Greek woman poet, born around 630 B.C. lived on the island of Lesbos off the coast of Asia Minor, an Ionian Greek (like Homer) aristocratic woman who had a circle of female friends among whom she sang her songs also composed songs for public performance at religious or other social occasions later known as the "Tenth Muse" poetry dealing with a variety of themes and issues including the life of aristocratic Greek women, Greek religion and mythology, ethics and morality, aesthetics and beauty, heterosexual and homosexual love, and the relations between and competition with other poets nine books of her poetry were once kept at the library of Alexandria (3rd c. B. C.), now lost; only one poem survives in complete form, others are preserved in fragments systematic destruction of Sappho's works by later Christian censors fragments of her poetry recovered from quotations in commentaries by ancient writers and from Egyptian sites Sapphic stanza : poetic form employed by and named after Sappho Main Works Recommended translations of the surviving fragments of Sappho's poetry:

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12. Sappho: Namesake For Sappho.geophys.mcgill.ca [132.206.152.35] Despite the admiration that the ancients had for her, it is only in our time that sappho can perhaps be completely understood. http://travesti.geophys.mcgill.ca/~olivia/SAPPHO/

Sappho, the first modern poet ``I served beauty Was it in fact for me something greater?'' ... Sappho The first woman poet Lesbos, the great Greek island opposite Asia, 2,500 years ago... From that time, from that island, we possess a treasure of radiant beauty and, more charged with emotion still than the most admirable object of marble or ceramic: some 650 lines, with cries of love, revolt and anguish, springing for the first time from a Greek mouth and this mouth was that of a woman: Sappho. But with the passage of time, her work has come to represent, even her name alone the very existence of her work being generally ignored the pernicious, and for some fascinating, mystery of forbidden love. But she, the woman, the poet, where is she? Who is she? With her works torn to shreads, scattered and buried deep in the sands, in the night of Egyptian tombs, she was deprived of her poems, divested of all historical reality modern authors have treated her as an imaginary poet born of legend. But a journey or 2,500 years through works and arts, through customs and ideas, reveals that her glory was dazzling and she was

13. Sappho, The 10th Muse sappho lived and prospered during the so called PreClassical period, in the early 6th century B.C. (around 580), mostly in Mytilene, the capital of the http://www.geocities.com/sapphida/sapphoeg.htm

KOINOTHTA ILGA-EU SAPPHO NEWS COMMUNITY LesGroup S-LOGOS ... GUESTBOOK Sappho, the 10th Muse Sources/bibliography... Sappho's Poems on the Internet about Sappho's Poems References ... Previous Page Sappho lived and prospered during the so called Pre-Classical period, in the early 6th century B.C. (around 580), mostly in Mytilene, the capital of the Aeolic Lesbos island in the North-East Aegean. Arts and culture were thriving there in that period. She was probably born a few decades earlier, by the end of the 7th century BC, around 620, at Eressos, on the same island. Alkaios was her contemporary, and they both lived about two generations after Terpandros, a well-known guitar-singer that lived in late 7th century and is alleged to be the founder of the first school of lyric poetry on the island of Lesvos. Sappho and Alkaios are the most prominent figures of ancient Lyric poetry, and there are few others, like Archilohos and Anacreon. She is the most well known poetess of ancient Greece, although some would say of the whole world. She has been loved and praised in her time, and still is, for the beauty and the tenderness in her love lyrics, and for her direct approach to readers feelings. Looks like she loved music and every kind of beauty. She has been called "the Tenth Muse" and the "mortal Muse" (probably the muse of lyrics and erotic poetry), Plato has called her wise (according to Aelianus Claudious), and Horace in his 2nd ode says that even the dead are admiringly listening to her songs in holy silence in the underworld.

14. Poetry Archives @ EMule.com A resource of translations mostly by Mary Bernard. http://www.emule.com/poetry/?page=overview&author=51

15. Sappho And Lesbian Poetry sappho The 2006 revision of 94 article, please use this not the original cached version. http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/Translations/Sappho.html

SAPPHO and THE WORLD OF LESBIAN POETRY William Harris, Prof. Em. Middlebury College This paper, written in l996 and revised ten years later, dates from the early days of the Internet when we could not use Greek characters with a Roman text. A longer and more detailed 134 page .pdf article with the Greek text, has an English translation, art background and detailed sound analysis; but this paper is a good shorter introduction to Sappho. When we speak of Sappho, the poet from the island of Lesbos, and her poetry, we are thinking of something very special, a transcendental kind of poetry which is somehow purer, fairer, lovelier than anything else in the Western world. Considering how little we know about the poet herself, and how little we have of the remains of her poetry, we might well ask ourselves if we are not participating in a literary myth, creating a poet-figure of such great talent with so little verse, that one can only admire from a vast distance. But we are interested here in Sappho as a poet, and not the biography of an ancient woman from Lesbos who wrote poetry. What little historical information has come down has been the basis for vast speculation, but it is largely based on scraps of hearsay from inauthentic and late sources. It might be best to wipe the historical slate clean of "fact", and look more carefully at the poems themselves with their scraps and bits, and see what we can evoke from reading them as text. There is a vast difference between Criticism and Interpretation. The classical scholarly world has long shown its preference for the critics, and has until recently been wary of the subjective side of interpretative study. It is as if Criticism founded in history through cumulative scholarship might seem at times more interesting than the imaginive world of vision and intuition. In ancient studies we seem to have focused on developing a sharp critical outlook, even as an end in itself, rather than one of the tools of interpretation.

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18. Mary Robinson. Sappho And Phaon. 1796. British Poetry 1780-1910 At The Electroni sappho AND PHAON IN A SERIES OF Legitimate Sonnets, WITH THOUGHTS ON POETICAL SUBJECTS, AND ANECDOTES OF THE GRECIAN POETESS. http://historyofideas.org/britpo/sappho/sappho.html

SAPPHO AND PHAON IN A SERIES OF Legitimate Sonnets, WITH THOUGHTS ON POETICAL SUBJECTS, AND ANECDOTES OF THE GRECIAN POETESS. BY MARY ROBINSON, LONDON: Printed by S. GOSNELL, For the AUTHOR, and Sold by HOOKHAM and CARPENTER, Bond Street. The Sonnets Notes on the Text Appendix: Works by the same Author About this document.

19. Euro-Sappho Mailing List List for sapphic discussion on topics that are mainly of interest to European dykes. http://www.sappho.net/euro-sappho/

Euro-Sappho Euro-Sappho is a list for sapphic discussion on topics that are mainly of interest to European dykes. While any woman can join, we expect subscribers to keep the international/European nature of the list in mind. There is a very comprehensive information package which answers all questions (and more!) about Euro-Sappho. Please read the Euro-Sappho FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)! The list welcome information is also available in: deutsch Currently (Nov. 2003), the list has about 260 subscribers from many countries. Look here how to subscribe Eurosapphic home pages: Saga of Amazonia Euro-Sappho logo The lesbian Internet Living with Lesbian Lists ... Wild-list , European lesbian studies Rogue , European lesbian writers Lista Lesbica Italiana Finnish Sapfo-list Lesben in Deutschland Euro-queer Mainly European sapphic spaces: ContigoContact , a Dutch organization for les/bi women European Lesbian Film Gingerbeer , Lesbian London International Homo/Lesbian Informationcenter and Archives , The Netherlands Irish Lesbian News Les Art -Polish lesbians LesbenFrühlingsTreffen LesbenNetz (in German) die Lesbenzeitschrift , Switzerland The Lesbian Finland Lespress , German lesbian monthly LIS - Lesben In Sicht , Hamburgs lesbischstes Fernsehmagazin Pagine lesbiche , Italian lesbian homepage , Denmark Zij aan Zij , a Dutch lesbian magazine Other links: Pride events worldwide Euro-queer links page U.S. Sappho

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