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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 ...
Yet other historians claim that Sappho's circle were involved in female homosexuality as a kind of initiation ritual. [34] The earliest evidence of Sappho's reputation for homosexual desire comes from the Hellenistic period, with a fragment of a biography found in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri which criticizes Sappho for being "gynaikerastria." [note ...
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.
Sappho Leontias (Greek: Σαπφώ Λεοντιάς) ( Constantinople, 1830 or Moutoullas, 1832 – Constantinople, 1900) was a Cypriot writer, feminist, and educator. Early life and education [ edit ]
They adapted the imagery of the Symbolist poets along with the conventions of courtly love to describe love between women, also finding examples of heroic women in history and myth. [37] Sappho was an especially important influence and they studied Greek so as to read the surviving fragments of her poetry in the original. Both wrote plays about ...
The word Sappho appears to have first emerged digitally in 1987 on an early iteration of an email list, according to Avery Dame-Griff, curator of the Queer Digital History Project.
The term sapphism has been used since the 1890s, [8] and derives from Sappho, a Greek poet whose verses mainly focused on love between women and her own homosexual passions. [9] She was born on the Greek island Lesbos, which also inspired the term lesbianism. [10] [11] Sappho's work is one of the few ancient references to sapphic love.
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.