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  2. Sappho - Wikipedia

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    Sappho probably wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry; today, only about 650 survive. [4] She is best known for her lyric poetry, written to be accompanied by music. [4] The Suda also attributes to her epigrams, elegiacs, and iambics; three of these epigrams are extant, but are in fact later Hellenistic poems inspired by Sappho. [48]

  3. Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene - Wikipedia

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    A small deer stands on the bench beside Erinna: the animal is an attribute of Artemis, but also sacred to Apollo, perhaps associating Sappho with the Muses. Sappho may be identified by her traditional attributes lying discarded beside a female statue nearby: some lines of poetry, and a musical instrument.

  4. Statue of Liberty (Mytilene) - Wikipedia

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    The Statue of Liberty (Greek: Άγαλμα της Ελευθερίας) is a bronze statue erected at the harbor of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in Greece. The statue was created by Greek sculptor Gregorios Zevgolis based on a design by local painter Georgios Jakobides . [ 1 ]

  5. Mytilene - Wikipedia

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    Sappho Square, where the statue of the Ancient Greek poet Sappho is located [22] Statue of Liberty (Mytilene) Theofilos Museum [23] Yeni Mosque, Mytilene; Valide Mosque, Mytilene; The Roman aqueduct of Mória [24] Teriade Meseum [25] Agora of Ermou street [26] Stoa of Mytilene, Hellinistic stoa in the area of Epano skala [27]

  6. What does 'Sapphic' mean? An ancient term is having a modern ...

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    The word Sappho appears to have first emerged digitally in 1987 on an early iteration of an email list, ... a book club that today boasts 8,200 members from over 60 countries, with members who ...

  7. Delphi Archaeological Museum - Wikipedia

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    It is an enormous statue which crowned an ionic column and capital, totaling 12 meters in height. The column stood close to the Halos . The sphinx was dedicated by the city of Naxos , a wealthy island of the Aegean in its prime time, i.e. between 575 and 560 BCE.

  8. Category:Paintings of Sappho - Wikipedia

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  9. Sappho Inspired by Love - Wikipedia

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    Sappho is shown holding a parchment inscribed "ἔλθε μοι καὶ νῦν, χαλέπαν δὲ λῦσον ἐκ μερίμναν" ('So come again and save me from unbearable pain' [1]), the first lines of the last verse of her Ode to Aphrodite in ancient Greek from Joseph Addison's 1735 edition of the work.