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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.
'sea-foam' [1]) was the Athenian son of Poseidon and Euryte [2] or Bathycleia [3] in Greek mythology. He was also called the son of Perieres and husband of Alcyone who bore him two sons, Serus and Alazygus. [4] Another son of Halirrhothius, Samos of Mantinea was the victor of the four-horse chariot during the first Olympic games established by ...
Sapho and Phao is known to have been performed at Court before Queen Elizabeth, probably on 3 March 1584; it was also staged at the first Blackfriars Theatre.In these respects it resembles Campaspe, Lyly's other early play; and like Campaspe, sources conflict on the identity of the acting company that performed the work.
The Brothers Poem or Brothers Song is a series of lines of verse attributed to the archaic Greek poet Sappho (c. 630 – c. 570 BC), which had been lost since antiquity until being rediscovered in 2014.
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, Phaon, and Cupid. Jacques-Louis David, 1809. In Greek mythology, Phaon (Ancient Greek: Φάων; gen.: Φάωνος) was a mythical boatman of Mytilene in Lesbos. He was old and ugly when Aphrodite came to his boat. She put on the guise of a crone. Phaon ferried her over to Asia Minor and accepted no payment for doing so. In return, she ...
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 Cyprus court on Friday found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home guilty of manslaughter, saying that the prosecution didn’t prove beyond reasonable doubt that the 76-year ...