Sappho
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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SAPPHO saf o, fl. early 6th cent. b.c., greatest of the early Greek lyric poets (Plato calls her "the tenth Muse"), b. Mytilene on Lesbos. Facts about her life are scant. She was an aristocrat, who...