Her name alone means many things. Ancient Greek poet Sappho, who Plato proclaimed the Tenth Muse, inspired the adjective for media around women loving women. She pioneered an eponymous meter favored ...

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 ...

Selby Wynn Schwartz’s After Sappho is a unique work of fiction that resembles a group biography on the travails of 20th-century queer feminist artists. Sculpture of the Greek poet Sappho, 1880. (Photo ...

Few poets in human history have inspired such lasting devotion as Sappho. Yet, for the majority of Sappho’s readers over the millennia, her poetry, composed in the Aeolic dialect, has always been ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Imagine that every copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio had been destroyed some 350 years ...

For those who have read the fragmented remains of the Greek poet, Sappho the loss of most of her poetic corpus is something to regret. With a mere two complete poems extant from nine books of verse, ...

Once upon a time, legendary lyric poet Sappho was having a really lousy night. And while someone else might have just moped the night away, the poet set her blues to verse. Now, astronomers—who ...

Jamie James is the author of "Andrew and Joey: A Novel." No poet of antiquity has been more widely adored than the Greek lyric poet Sappho, the most influential woman in world literature until modern ...

Sappho, who dates from the 7th century BCE, is considered by many scholars to be one of the world’s greatest love poets, the woman who “gave us the metaphors for passion — ‘I burn for you’ [and] ‘love ...

Sappho has a new poem out. This news is even more exciting than a new album by David Bowie. Sappho was born on the Greek island of Lesbos in the late seventh century BC, after all, and not much her ...