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  1. Sappho (Ancients in Action) by Marguerite Johnson, 2007-03-20
  2. Sappho: The Art of Loving Women by Sappho, J. Frederick Smith, 1975
  3. Sappho Sings by Peggy Ullman Bell, 2008-05-16
  4. The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos by Peter Green, 1995-12-28
  5. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937 (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Joan DeJean, 1989-11-28
  6. Dear Sappho: A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters
  7. Sappho - Poems, A New Version by Sappho, 1999-09-15
  8. Sappho Is Burning by Page duBois, 1997-04-15
  9. Sappho Goes to Hollywood : The Girls by Diana McLellan, 2001
  10. Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid (The New Ancient World)
  11. To Sappho My Sister
  12. The Islands Project, Poems for Sappho by Eloise Klein Healy, 2007-02-15
  13. Sappho Love Poems: Sapphic Erotica Poetry Illustrated with Female Nudes & Art (Lesbian Erotic Sex Stories and Romantic Poems) by Sappho, 2010-02-19
  14. Aphra Behn: The English Sappho by George Woodcock, 1996-07-01

41. Sisters Of Sappho
Founded in 1996, Sisters of sappho is a queer womyn s group at the University of Arizona. We provide support to lesbian, bisexual, transgendered,
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Founded in 1996, Sisters of Sappho is a queer womyn's group at the University of Arizona . We provide support to lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning women in the Tucson community, consisting mostly of university students. We are a part of the University of Arizona's Women's Resource Center and Pride Alliance . For meetings/listserv information, please contact the WRC at 621-3919 or Pride Alliance at 621-7585. (To get rid of that annoying pop-up ad, please drag it to a lower corner of the page. If you just close the window, it will pop-up again the next page you load.)
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Currently not meeting due to low membership, we are open to new leadership. Contact Pride Alliance if you are interested in becoming involved. Some of the things we've done in the past include camping trips, movie nights, basketball games, picnics, a film series, karaoke, potlucks, and various parties. In the future, we hope to go hiking, bowling, and more camping trips.
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  • 42. Sappho
    sappho is the most famous female poet of antiquity, but only incomplete poems and fragments remain of her work. Most of sappho s love poems were addressed
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    Sappho (fl. c. 610-c.580 B.C. Greek poetess, who lived on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is the most famous female poet of antiquity, but only incomplete poems and fragments remain of her work. Most of Sappho's love poems were addressed to women. The Greek philosopher Plato called her the tenth Muse. I asked myself What, Sappho, can
    you give one who
    has everything,
    like Aphrodite?

    (in Sappho: A New Translation, by Mary Barnard) Little is known for certain of Sappho's life, although there are many anecdotes. Her parents were of aristocratic origin. Sappho may have been born in 612 B.C. at Eresus, one of the towns of Lesbos. Her father was Scamandronymus, or according to some sources his name was Scamander. She had three brothers, Erigyius, Larichus and Charaxus, the eldest, who was a merchant. He sailed to Egypt with a cargo of wine. There he was involved with a local slavewoman named Doricha and purchased her freedom. Sappho disapproved the affair. She was more fond of the young Larichus; he poured the wine at council banquets. As a child, at some date between 604 and 595

    43. Dictionary Of Greek And Roman Biography And Mythology, Page 706 (v. 3)
    sappho (5a7r £cy, or, in her own Aeolic dialect, ^azr^a), one of the two great leaders of the Aeolian school of lyric poetry (Alcaeus being the other),
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    SAPPHO Dion Cass. Ixxii. 12; Lamprid. Commod. 3, where the name Auterus is probably, as Salmasius has pointed out, a corruption of Saoterus .) [W. R.J SAPOR sassanidae SAPIENS , LAE'LIUS. [lablius.] SAPPHO Alcaeus being the other), was a native of Mytilene , or, as some said, of Eresos, in Lesbos. Different authorities gave several different names as that of her father, Simon Eunomius Erigyius , Ecrytus, Semus Scamon , Etarchus, and Scamandronymus (Suid. s. H. xii. 19 ; Schol. ad Plat. Pliaedr. p. 312, Bekker). If we may believe Ovid, she lost her father when she was only six years old. (Ovid, flerdid. xv. 61: this celebrated epistle on the supposed love of Sappho for Phaon , contains allusions to most of the few known events of Sappho 's life.) Cleis (KAe?s) is mentioned as her mother's name, but only by late writers (Suid. s. v.; Charaxus Larichus Suidas , but only the two former are mentioned by writers of authority. Of Larichus Sappho praised the grace with which he acted as cup-bearer in the prytaneium, an honourable office, which was assigned to beautiful youths of noble birth

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    46. Sappho - History For Kids!
    sappho is the only woman from ancient Greece whose writing has survived, although she is not the earliest woman writer; that honor goes to Enheduanna,
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    Sappho, from a red-figure vase Sappho is the only woman from ancient Greece whose writing has survived, although she is not the earliest woman writer; that honor goes to Enheduanna , the daughter of Sargon, in Mesopotamia. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos in the 600's BC
    Lesbos today She seems to have come from a fairly wealthy family , and she may have run a sort of school for girls in their early teens, just before they got married. She wrote short poems about how beautiful the girls were, and about how beautiful nature was, and about love. Most of these poems unfortunately survive only in pieces, where some of the words are missing.
    One of Sappho's poems goes like this:
    A troop of horse, the crowded ranks of marchers, A noble fleet - some think these of everything on earth Most beautiful. For me nothing else comes close To my beloved. To understand this is for all most simple, For in this same way, gazing much on mortal perfection And knowing already what life could give her

    47. Erica Jong Web Site: Her Works, Books, Poetry, And Life
    Jong s sappho is a sort of female Odysseus, stretching the boundaries of time Fearless, heroic, yet full of vulnerability, Erica Jong s sappho is one of
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    Home Erica Live! Erica's Events Erica Jong ... For Writers Sappho's Leap In stores now! Read Booklist Kirkus' Review of ... Sappho's Leap If you could go back in time 2600 years and get inside the head of the greatest singer of love the world has ever known, Sappho's Leap would be the result. An odyssey of love and adventure which spans the ancient world, Erica Jong's witty, sensuous and compellingly readable new novel, tells the story of a passionate woman who was ahead of her time and whose songs have proven to be immortal. Jong's Sappho is a sort of female Odysseus, stretching the boundaries of time and space, journeying not only into the reality of the ancient world but also into lands of myth and legend which have shaped the way we imagine our lives today. Born on the island of Lesbos circa 600 BCE, Sappho falls madly in love with the dashing poet Alcaeus, plots with him to overthrow the dictator of her island, is caught and exiled and married off to a repellent older man in the hopes that matrimony will keep her out of trouble. It does no such thing, instead it starts her off on a series of amorous adventures with both women and men which take her from Syracuse to Delphi to Egypt and even to the Land of the Amazons and the shadowy realm of Hades. Fearless, heroic, yet full of vulnerability, Erica Jong's Sappho is one of her most unforgettable and exuberant heroines.

    48. The Love Songs Of Sappho
    Translated with An Essay by Paul Roche. Introduction by Page duBois a review.
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    The Love Songs Of Sappho
    Translated with An Essay by Paul Roche
    Introduction by Page duBois
    Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 B.C.E.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned immortal verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections. Distinguished poet and lecturer Paul Roche's translation of The Love Songs of Sappho is enhanced with his brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho," as well as a lucid historical introduction by celebrated feminist and classicist Page duBois. 251 pages (notes, Illustrations) ISBN 1-57392-251-X Paper Return to Literary Classics List or New List

    49. Sappho's Online
    Overview and newsletter information from the NorthCentral Indiana lesbian network.
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    Sappho's Network is a lesbian network in north-central Indiana that was started in 1993. At our monthly gatherings we have pitch-ins at various locations, socialize, and share other activities such as watching lesbian-related videos, playing games, and softball. Sappho's produces a bi-monthly newsletter Network News. Subscriptions to Network News, as well as more information on Sappho's Network, can be obtained by writing to the address below:
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    ABOUT SAPPHO
    Sappho (650-590 BC), Greek poet, whose poetry was so renowned that Plato referred to her two centuries after her death as the tenth muse. She was born on the island of Lésvos, probably in Mitylene. Although the details of her life are lacking, it appears that she was of good family and was a contemporary of the lyric poets Alcaeus and Stesichorus. According to tradition, Alcaeus was her lover. Another legend holds that because of unrequited love for the young boatman Phaon she leaped to her death from a steep rock on the island of Levkás. She had a daughter named Cleïs and two brothers. The fragmentary remains of Sappho's poems indicate that she taught her art to a group of maidens, to whom she was devotedly attached and whose bridal odes she composed when they left her to be married. Later writers of antiquity, commenting upon the group, accused Sappho of immorality and vice, from which arose the modern terms for female homosexuality, “lesbianism” and “sapphism.”

    50. Glbtq >> Literature >> Sappho
    Admired through the ages as one of the greatest lyric poets, the ancient Greek writer sappho is today esteemed by lesbians around the world as the
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    page: The earliest woman writer whose work survives and the most famous, Sappho has been admired throughout the ages. To the ancients, she needed no introduction: She was known simply as the poetess, the female equivalent to Homer, the poet. She was so esteemed by her compatriots that her portrait graced the coins of her native Lesbos. The Importance of Sappho She was admired by male poets such as Baudelaire, A. C. Swinburne, and Ezra Pound as the greatest of lyric poets; by female poets like Natalie Barney, Amy Lowell, and H.D. as the font of their poetic tradition. Sponsor Message.
    To lesbians around the world today, she is the archetypal lesbian and their symbolic mother. Although Sappho was the sole woman to be admitted to the canon of the nine great lyric poets in antiquity, she was the only one of them to attain mythic status when Plato first elevated her to the rank of the Muses. She is the only ancient author to have become the stuff of legend: She was a popular subject for Greek art from the sixth and fifth century B.C.E. onward, she was presumably the subject of the six different Greek comedies entitled

    51. Salon.com Books | "The Sappho Companion" By Margaret Reynolds
    1, 2001 If people know anything at all about sappho these days, it s probably that she was a lesbian. They re far less likely to know that she was first
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  • "The Sappho Companion" by Margaret Reynolds Genius? Pervert? Seducer and murderer? Homely bluestocking? Nymphomaniac? Every age has its own version of the woman whose 2,600-year-old verses invented the poetry of love. By Laura Miller If people know anything at all about Sappho these days, it's probably that she was a lesbian. They're far less likely to know that she was first of all a Lesbian that is, a native of the Greek island of Lesbos or that she was one of the great poets of ancient times, or that her specialty was lyric verse about the ecstasies and torments of love. (In fact, she practically invented the form.) Only a few hundred years ago, though, an informal poll would likely have revealed an entirely different image of Sappho, whose life was a popular subject for paintings, operas, ballets and other pageants. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, she was mostly famous for having thrown herself from the top of an enormous cliff out of unrequited love for the beautiful (male) youth Phaon. In those days, she was sometimes depicted as having written verse, sometimes as having a great fondness for girls, but the heartbreak and the leap were the important things. This was only one of many incarnations. Throughout history, Sappho has been labeled a genius, a pervert, a lovely blushing maiden, a homely bluestocking, a nymphomaniac, an uptight schoolmistress, a solitary, a diva, a cult leader, an abandoned lover, an irresistible seducer, the "Tenth Muse," a mother, a feminist, a victim, a masochist and a sadist.

    52. Hotel Sappho In Eressos, Mytilini Lesvos Greece- Greek Island - Lesvos - Greek I
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    53. Eros & Sapphos :: A HP Slash & Femslash Archive
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    54. Sappho - LoveToKnow 1911
    sappho (7th6th centuries B.C.), Greek poetess, was a native of Lesbos, contemporary with Alcaeus, Stesichorus and Pittacus, in fact, with the culminating
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    SAPPHO (7th-6th centuries B.C.), Greek poetess, was a native of Lesbos , contemporary with Alcaeus Stesichorus and Pittacus , in fact, with the culminating period of Aeolic poetry . One of her brothers, Charaxus, fell in love with a courtesan named Doricha upon whom he squandered his property. Sappho wrote an ode , in which she severely satirized and rebuked him. Another brother, Larichus, was public cup bearer at Mytilene - a position for which it was necessary to be well born. It is said that she had a daughter, named after her grandmother Cleis, and she had some personal acquaintance with Alcaeus. He addressed her in an ode of which a fragment is preserved: "Violetweaving (or dark-haired), pure, sweet-smiling Sappho, I wish to say somewhat, but shame hinders me"; and she answered in another ode: "Hadst thou had desire of aught good or fair, shame would not have touched thine eyes, but thou wouldst have spoken thereof openly." The story of her love for the disdainful Phaon, and her leap into the sea from the Leucadian promontory, together with that of her flight from Mytilene to Sicily , has no confirmation ; we are not even told whether she died of the leap or not. Critics again are agreed that Suidas was simply gulled by the comic poets when he tells of her husband, Cercolas of

    55. Athens Daily Photo: Sappho
    sappho. Outside Athens National Gallery, the sculpture of ancient lyric poet sappho, by Antoine Bourdelle. Posted by Ovelikios at 554 PM
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    We produce popular Wilde About sappho, Canada’s annual celebration of gay and Now in its 15th year, Wilde About sappho has become a national event,
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    57. Sapphic - Definition From Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary
    sappho was the leading spirit of a coterie of female poets on the Aegean isle of Lesbos. Because of the homosexual themes in her poetry, she herself has
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    saf-( flourished circa 610 BC- circa 580 BC), Greek lyric poet. Sappho was the leading spirit of a coterie of female poets on the Aegean isle of Lesbos. Because of the homosexual themes in her poetry, she herself has traditionally been regarded as homosexual. Learn more about "sapphic" and related topics at Britannica.com See a map of "sapphic" in the Visual Thesaurus Pronunciation Symbols

    58. Sappho - Books On Sappho
    Books about the poet of Lesbos, sappho, her poetry, life, lesbianism, analyses of the relationship between her writing and that of other poets.
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    59. Sappho
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    O ne 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 sapphic meter. She innovated lyric poetry both in technique and style, becoming part of a new wave of Greek lyrists who moved from writing poetry from the point of view of gods and muses to the personal vantage point of the individual. She was one of the first poets to write from the first person, describing love and loss as it affected her personally.

    60. POEMS OF SAPPHO
    From this silence we may infer that the source of this myth about Aphrodite and Adonis is independent of sappho’s own poetry or of later distortions based
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    POEMS OF SAPPHO TRANSLATED BY JULIA DUBNOFF Immortal Aphrodite, on your intricately brocaded throne, child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, this I pray: with pains and sorrows. But come here, if ever before, when you heard my far-off cry, you listened. And you came, yoking your chariot of gold. Then beautiful swift sparrows led you over the black earth from the sky through the middle air, whirling their wings into a blur. Rapidly they came. And you, O Blessed Goddess, a smile on your immortal face, asked what had happened this time, why did I call again, and what did I especially desire for myself in my frenzied heart: to your love? Sappho, who is doing you wrong? For even if she flees, soon she shall pursue. And if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them. Come to me now once again and release me from grueling anxiety. All that my heart longs for, Some say an army of horsemen, some of footsoldiers, some of ships, is the fairest thing on the black earth, but I say it is what one loves. to everyone, for Helen, by far surpassing mortals in beauty, left the best of all husbands and sailed to Troy

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