The Poems of Sappho An Interpretative Rendition into English — John Myers Ohara

Sappho was a prolific poet probably composing around 10 000 lines Her poetry was well known and greatly admired through much of antiquity and she was among the canon of Nine Lyric Poets most highly esteemed by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria Sappho s poetry is still considered extraordinary and her works continue to influence other writers Beyond her poetry she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women with the English word sapphic being derived from her own name and the English word lesbian derived from the name of her home island

Sappho was a prolific poet probably composing around 10 000 lines Her poetry was well known and greatly admired through much of antiquity and she was among the canon of Nine Lyric Poets most highly esteemed by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria Sappho s poetry is still considered extraordinary and her works continue to influence other writers Beyond her poetry she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women with the English word sapphic being derived from her own name and the English word lesbian derived from the name of her home island Tanıtım Bülteninden

Sappho was a prolific poet probably composing around 10 000 lines Her poetry was well known and greatly admired through much of antiquity and she was among the canon of Nine Lyric Poets most highly esteemed by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria Sapphos poetry is still considered extraordinary and her works continue to influence other writers Beyond her poetry she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women with the English word sapphic being derived from her own name and the English word lesbian derived from the name of her home island