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Sappho
Sappho (/ˈsæfoʊ/; Attic Greek Σαπφώ[sapːʰɔ̌ː], Aeolic Greek
Ψάπφω, Psappho [psápːʰɔː]) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the
island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric
poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said
that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her
life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly
admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her
immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.
Bust inscribed Sappho of Eressos, Roman copy of
a Greek original of the 5th century BC
Life
The only contemporary source for Sappho's life is her own poetry, and scholars
are skeptical of reading it biographically. Later biographical accounts are also
unreliable.[1]
Chronology
Strabo indicates that Sappho was the contemporary of Alcaeus of Mytilene (born
c. 620 BC) and Pittacus (c. 645–570 BC), and according to Athenaeus, she was
the contemporary of Alyattes of Lydia (c. 610–560 BC). The Suda, a
10th-century Byzantine encyclopædia, dates her to the 42nd Olympiad (612/608
BC), meaning either that she was born then or that this was her floruit. The
versions of Eusebius state that she was famous by the first or second year of the
45th or 46th Olympiad (between 600 and 594 BC). Taken together, these
refere