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 Attic Greek [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. Welkom Bij Cafe Sappho Translate this page DJ-café, theater-, artistiek-, lesbisch- en mixed café in Amsterdam. http://www.sappho.nl/

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

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

6. 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 11-19-07 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.

7. 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=" test0 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.

8. 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]

9. 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.

10. 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.

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12. 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.

13. 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.

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

15. 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:

16. 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://etext.virginia.edu/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.

17. Sappho S Breathing This website is currently offline for maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. http://www.sapphosbreathing.com/

18. Sappho: Poem I Translation and transliteration of sappho s only surviving complete poem. http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Texts/sappho.1.html

SAPPHO Poem I TRANSLATION and TRANSLITERATION (A detailed introduction to Sappho and her world is included in the article SAPPHO under the TRANSLATIONS index on the main index page. The following is the text/commentary section of that longer treatment. The Greek text is available at that location.) This poem is the only complete one we have from the several volumes of Sappho's poetry which were circulating as late as the 8th c.. A.D. It has always been prized as remarkably sensitive and elegant, but there are dimensions which I believe have not been explored or interpretated. Let me give you first the text in Roman letters for those who do not read Greek, so they can at least read the words aloud and get their general sound. The translation which follows is necessary since Sappho's Aeolic dialect is not the normal Attic Greek you learn in in school, and I believe some help is called for. Of course this translation loses immense detail, specifically the long and short vowels which make a real difference in Greek. There is no initial aspiration -h- in Aeolic so that no problem. The letters -ch- are of course more like -kh-, and the exact pronunciation of the consonants is not exactly known after the passage of two and a half millennia, not surprisingly. The accents which are printed in modern texts may not be the same as Aeolic intonation, but modern Classicists ignore the musical pitches completely, which again removes a critical part of Sappho's lyric poetry. But the poem is readable, singable, soundable as it is, with some imagination.

19. Sappho Paper The lyric poet sappho herself could not have guessed at the significance of this particular line of poetry. She may have written this to be uttered to a http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JLSp.html

Jennifer Snook Classics 135 Betsey Halpern May 7, 1996 Sappho's Legacy "I say someone in another time will remember us." Sappho, fragment 147 The lyric poet Sappho herself could not have guessed at the significance of this particular line of poetry. She may have written this to be uttered to a special friend or it could have been part of a wedding song she composed. Whatever her original meaning, Sappho could not have made a more accurate assessment of her life and works. Centuries later, Sappho remains one of the most admired and controversial poets in literary history. There are critics on both sides of the issue: some vehemently condemn her "immorality" and discard her writing while others revere her as the mother of women's writing and modern lesbianism. Yet no matter what one's personal sentiments are, one cannot disregard the importance of Sappho as one of the only sources of women's lives from the point of view of a woman. Her life is an inspiration to many, especially women in the lesbian community, though her sexuality has been much debated. Sappho was a pioneer of women's expression, and the purpose of this paper is to explore why she is so cherished.

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