The word " lesbian " is derived from the name of the Greek island of Lesbos, home to the 6th-century BCE poet Sappho.

Sappho (; Attic Greek, Aeolic Greek ) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos.

Though there is no explicit record of this, it is usually assumed that Sappho returned from exile at some point and that she spent most of her life in Lesbos.

: Look, there's Sappho too, from Lesbos, the tenth.

This painting completed in 1881, depicts Sappho and her companions listening as the poet Alcaeus plays a " kithara ", on the island of Lesbos ( Mytilene ).

* Sappho of Lesbos, Ancient Greek poet

* Sappho of Lesbos ( 1960 )

* 590 Sappho, Greek poet and priestess, flourishes on island of Lesbos.

His religion belonged to women: the dying of Adonis was fully developed in the circle of young girls around the poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos, about 600 BCE, as revealed in a fragment of Sappho's surviving poetry.

Bilitis is the name given to a fictional lesbian contemporary of Sappho, by the French poet Pierre Louÿs in his 1894 work The Songs of Bilitis in which Bilitis was an Isle of Lesbos alongside Sappho.

The binomial name derives from the Latin, " kingfisher " ( from Greek, ) and Atthis, a beautiful young woman of Lesbos, and favourite of Sappho.

* Warrior Empress, The ( 1960 ) a. k. a. Sappho, Venus of Lesbos, Kerwin Matthews, Tina Louise

* Warrior Empress, The ( 1960 ) a. k. a. Sappho, Venus of Lesbos, Kerwin Matthews, Tina Louise

Sappho, born on the island of Lesbos, was included by later Greeks in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.

Many erotic poems have survived from Ancient Greece and Rome, the authors including the Greeks Straton of Sardis, Sappho of Lesbos ( lyrics ); and the Romans Automedon ( The Professional and Demetrius the Fortunate ), Philodemus ( Charito ), Marcus Argentarius, Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, Martial and Juvenal and the anonymous Priapeia.

* 600 BC – Sappho of Lesbos writes love poetry addressing younger women, providing the eventual inspiration for the word lesbian.

Named after the Greek poet Sappho who lived on Lesbos Island and wrote love poems to women, this term has been in use since at least the 18th century, with the connotation of lesbian.

Sappho, girl of Lesbos and poetess

Sappho, a poet from the island of Lesbos, wrote many love poems addressed to women and girls.

She is also called a Lesbian and a Mytilenean, on account of her residence in Lesbos with Sappho.

The name also suggests literary and erotic connotations, evoking the famous circle of young girl lovers on Lesbos Island, who included the poetess Sappho.

She has for many years been a resident of the Greek island of Lesbos, the home of the poet Sappho.

* The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos ( 1965 )

Youth females are depicted as surrounding Sappho in this painting of Lafond " Sappho sings for Homer ", 1824

The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms.

His program of new constructions included a new theatre, designed by Damocopos, which gave the city a flourishing cultural life: this in turn attracted personalities as Aeschylus, Ario of Metimma, Eumelos of Corinth and Sappho, who had been exiled here from Mytilene.

The two threads are further linked by the placement of the Greek word brododactylos (" rosy-fingered ") applied by Homer to the dawn but given here in the dialect of Sappho and used by her in a poem of unrequited love.

In 1904 Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems.

File: Godward-In the Days of Sappho-1904. jpg |" In the Days of Sappho ", 1904

In the days of Sappho by John William Godward ( 1904 ).

In Willow's dream, she moves from an intimate moment painting a love poem by Sappho on Tara's bare back, to attending the first day of drama class to learn that she is to be in a play performed immediately for which she does not know the lines or understand.

Sappho and Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

He died of lung cancer in London on 1 January 1984 and was survived by a daughter, musician Sappho Gillett Korner, and two sons, guitarist Nicholas ( Nico ) Korner and sound engineer Damian Korner.

Catullus 51 follows Sappho 31 so closely that some believe the later poem to be, in part, a direct translation of the earlier poem, and 61 and 62 are certainly inspired by and perhaps translated directly from lost works of Sappho.

Odes by Catullus, as well as other poetry of Catullus, was particularly inspired by Sappho.

This metric system originated in ancient Greek poetry, and was used by poets such as Pindar and Sappho, and by the great tragedians of Athens.

An Oxyrhynchus papyrus from around AD 200 and the Suda agree that Sappho had a mother called Cleïs and a daughter by the same name.

" Ovid may have based this on a poem by Sappho no longer extant.

According to Athenaeus, Sappho often praised Larichus for pouring wine in the town hall of Mytilene, an office held by boys of the best families.

He also cites an epigram by Posidippus ( 3rd c. BC ) that refers to Doricha and Sappho.

Joel Lidov has criticized this restoration, arguing that the Doricha story is not helpful in restoring any fragment by Sappho and that its origins lie in the work of Cratinus or another of Herodotus ' comic contemporaries.

Sappho on an Attic red-figure vase by the Brygos Painter, ca.

258 K ) suggested that Sappho killed herself by jumping off the Leucadian cliffs for love of Phaon, a ferryman.

Sappho and Alcaeus ( poet ) | Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Translations of Sappho have also been produced by Willis Barnstone, Jim Powell, and Stanley Lombardo.

Menelaus and Helen had a daughter, Hermione as supported, for example, by Sappho and some variations of the myth suggest they had two sons as well.

Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1881 ).

She was taken to Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Amasis, and freed there for a large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene, brother of Sappho, the lyric poet.

* Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets translated by Willis Barnstone, Schoken Books Inc., New York ( paperback 1988 ) ISBN 0-8052-0831-3 ( A collection of modern English translations suitable for a general audience, includes the entireity of Alcman's parthenion and 16 additional poetic fragments by him along with a brief history of the poet.