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  2. Sappho - Wikipedia

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    Sappho, by Enrique Simonet. Little is known about Sappho's life for certain. [12] She was from the island of Lesbos [13] [b] and lived at the end of the seventh and beginning of the sixth centuries BC. [16] This is the date given by most ancient sources, who considered her a contemporary of the poet Alcaeus and the tyrant Pittacus, both also ...

  3. Natalie Clifford Barney - Wikipedia

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    The play incorporates quotations from Sappho's fragments, with Barney's own footnotes in Greek, and was performed with ancient Greek-inspired music and dance. [66] [67] Barney did not take her poetry as seriously as Vivien did, saying "if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem". [68]

  4. Sophia Parnok - Wikipedia

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    Early life and education. Sonya Yakovlevna Parnokh was born on 11 August 1885, ... Sappho was considered a heterosexual poet because she wrote about desire.

  5. 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 ... what is known of Sappho’s life comes from surviving fragments of her poetry and what was ...

  6. Sappho Leontias - Wikipedia

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    Sappho Leontias (Greek: Σαπφώ Λεοντιάς) ( Constantinople, 1830 or Moutoullas, 1832 – Constantinople, 1900) was a Cypriot writer, feminist, and educator. Early life and education [ edit ]

  7. Renée Vivien - Wikipedia

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    Renée Vivien (born Pauline Mary Tarn; 11 June 1877 – 18 November 1909) was a British poet who wrote in the French language. [1] A high-profile lesbian writer in Paris during the Belle Époque era, she is widely considered to be one of the first noteworthy lesbian poets of the twentieth century.

  8. Poetry of Sappho - Wikipedia

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    Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives. Only one poem is known to be complete; in some cases as little as a single word survives.

  9. Charles Mengin - Wikipedia

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    Sappho, by Charles Mengin (1877) Manchester Art Gallery, England. Charles Auguste Mengin (5 July 1853 – 3 April 1933), was a French academic painter and sculptor.. He is known for his painting of the Greek poet Sappho, made in 1877, now in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery, in England.