Overview of the life and work of Sappho.

Learn about the Greek poet Sappho and how her poems relate to Greek mythology ...

The Love Songs Of Sappho Translated with An Essay by Paul Roche Introduction by Page duBois Called the Tenth Muse by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 B.C.E.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned ...