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Sappho at Leucate, also known as The Death of Sappho, is an oil-on-canvas painting executed by the French painter Antoine-Jean Gros in 1801. It has the dimensions of 122 by 100 cm. It is held in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Baron-Gérard , in Bayeux. [1]
Kalpis painting of Sappho by the Sappho Painter (c. 510 BC), currently held in the National Museum, Warsaw. Sappho (/ ˈ s æ f oʊ /; Greek: Σαπφώ Sapphṓ [sap.pʰɔ̌ː]; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.
Part of Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1232, the papyrus on which Sappho 44 is preserved. Sappho 44 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, which describes the wedding of Hector and Andromache. Preserved on a piece of papyrus found in Egypt, it is the longest of Sappho's surviving fragments, and is written in epic style suiting its subject.
Andromache's gradual discovery of her husband's death and her immediate lamentation (22.437–515) culminate the shorter lamentations of Priam and Hecuba upon Hector's death (22.405–36). In accordance with traditional customs of mourning, Andromache responds with an immediate and impulsive outburst of grief ( goos ) that begins the ritual ...
A Georgia mother who in 2021 shot and killed her 7-year-old son, in part because she was under the delusion that her husband, the boy’s father, was a serial killer, on Wednesday pleaded guilty ...
Sappho 16 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. [a] It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known from a second-century papyrus discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century.
An Alaska mom left a chilling voicemail for her 5-year-old son’s father after she allegedly murdered the boy with a 20-pound weight — cruelly telling him: “We don’t have a son no more.”
A South Carolina husband allegedly murdered his wife and dumped her body near a lake with the help of his two roommates before joining in on search parties looking for his wife who was reported ...