Sappho

c. 630–c. 570 BCE · Ancient Greece

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Biography

Ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, regarded by the ancients as one of the greatest poets. Plato called her 'the tenth Muse.' Most of her work survives only in fragments, but what remains reveals an extraordinary voice exploring love, desire, beauty, and loss with piercing emotional directness.

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