The Guardian: Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
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Sappho
Sappho was an ancient Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. She is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, she was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is not has mostly survived in fragmentary form; o…
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culture · Ancient Greek lyric poet (c. 630–c. 570 BC) · poet · composer · author · writer · also Sappho, Psappho, Sapphus, Sapho
Born 650 BC · Died 550 BC · Q17892
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2026· 2 entries
The New York Times: Arthur Sze Treasures Sappho, Neruda and ‘2,000 Years of Mayan Literature’
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2024· 2 entries
Artnet: The Hunt: The Search for Sappho’s Lost Poetry Awaits a New Chapter
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The Guardian: You Burn Me review – Sappho and suffering in a macabre meditation on desire and death
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2023· 1 entry
NPR: 'After Sappho' brings women in history to life to claim their stories
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2022· 2 entries
Released album “FIGHT TO THE DEATH: REMATCH”.
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Released ep “FIGHT TO THE DEATH”.
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Doubts cast over provenance of unearthed Sappho poems
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Time Machine”.
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Atthis review – Sappho’s passions in a subtle song cycle
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2014· 7 entries
The Guardian: Poster poems: Sappho
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The Guardian: Read Sappho's 'new' poem
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The Daily Telegraph: A new Sappho poem is more exciting than a new David Bowie album
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The Conversation: New Sappho poems set classical world reeling
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The Guardian: Sappho: two previously unknown poems indubitably hers, says scholar
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The Daily Beast: Scholars Discover New Poems from Ancient Greek Poetess Sappho
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Contains fragments of ten consecutive poems from an ancient edition of Sappho, of which only two are certainly love poems, while at least three and possibly four are primarily concerned with family
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2012· 2 entries
The Guardian: Glanville-Hicks: Sappho – review
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The Guardian: Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho
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2010· 2 entries
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Sappho and Phaon by Mary Robinson
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The Guardian: Sappho: the great poet of the personal | Charlotte Higgins
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2005· 2 entries
The Guardian: Dumbledore's death in the style of Sappho
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A commentary on her poems on a papyrus from the second or third century AD was published
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2004· 2 entries
And 2014 excited both scholarly and media attention
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(the "Tithonus poem" and a new, previously unknown fragment) and 2014 (fragments of nine poems: five already known but with new readings, four, including the "Brothers Poem", not previously known)
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1967· 1 entry
Judged that Sappho may have "presided over a literary coterie", but that "evidence for a formal appointment as priestess or teacher is hard to find"
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1959· 1 entry
Denys Page, for example, stated that Sappho's extant fragments portray "the loves and jealousies, the pleasures and pains, of Sappho and her companions"; and he adds, "We have found, and shall find, no trace of any forma
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1879· 1 entry
The first new discovery of a fragment of Sappho was made at Fayum
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1816· 1 entry
An article defending Sappho from charges of prostitution and lesbianism, arguing that she was chaste – a position that was later taken up by Wilamowitz at the end of the 19th and Henry Thornton Wharton at the beginning o
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