Sappho
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...scant. She was an aristocrat, who wrote poetry for her circle of friends, mostly but...ancients had seven or nine books of her poetry (the first book originally consisted of...many later poets, e.g., Catullus , Ovid , and Swinburne . See translations by M...