Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

In his second book, in an ode composed in Alcaic stanzas on the subject of an almost fatal accident he had on his farm, he imagines meeting Alcaeus and Sappho in Hades:

:: Seclusion, Sappho on the Aeolian lyre,

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.

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

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

Depiction of Sappho in foreground with female associateSappho's poetry centers on passion and love for various personages and all genders.

As Page DuBois ( among many other experts ) points out, this attempt at making Sappho understandable and palatable to the genteel classes of Great Britain was based more on conservative sensibilities than evidence.

Sappho reading to her companions on an Attic vase of c. 435 BC

Whereas Homer focused depicting beauty through the glory of militarism, however, Sappho focused primarily on the portrayal of beauty through love.

papyrus scrolls, which made them transcribed records of the lyrics Sappho sung while accompanying herself on a cithara.

The story still circulates that Sappho ’ s poems were lost due to the repeated attacks on the library in Alexandria.

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

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.

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

Apollonius Rhodius represented Eros as a child of Aphrodite ( Argonautica 3. 25 – 6 ) and there is a relevant scholium on that passage too, according to which Sappho made Eros the son of Earth and Heaven, Simonides made him the son of Aphrodite and Ares, and Ibycus made him the son of ...?

A newly-found poem on Tithonus is the fourth extant complete poem by ancient Greek lyrical poetess Sappho.

Sappho appears on Ancient Greek herms, and anonymous female figures were often used from the Renaissance on, when herms were often attached to walls as decoration.

In 1927, Sappho Marchal published a study cataloging the remarkable diversity of their hair, headdresses, garments, stance, jewelry and decorative flowers, which Marchal concluded were based on actual practices of the Angkor period.

On 15 May 1812, the British brig Sappho fired on Gunboat no.

Alcaeus and Sappho, Attica | Attic red-figure kalathos, ca.

Alcaeus of Mytilene and Sappho, Attica | Attic red-figure kalathos, ca.

Sappho reading to her companions on an Attic vase of c. 435 BC.

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 ).

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.

Sappho of Lesbos, depicted here in a 1904 painting by John William Godward, gave the term lesbian the connotation of erotic desire between women.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.