Sappho

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born

December 29, 0611 in Lesbos, Greece

died

December 30, 0569

gender

female

genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Sappho (Ψάπφω) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. In history and poetry texts, she is sometimes associated with the city of Mytilene on Lesbos; she was also said to have been born in Eresos, another city on Lesbos. Her birth was sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

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Average rating: 4.15 · 2,706 ratings · 221 reviews · 85 distinct works

	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, Anne Carson (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 1,059 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Sappho: A New Translation by Sappho, Mary Barnard (translator), Dudley Fitts (foreword) 3.99 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poems and Fragments by Sappho, Pamela Gordon (Introduction), Stanley Lombardo (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 241 ratings — published -600 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Poems by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Poems of Sappho by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (translator) 4.30 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Love Songs of Sappho by Sappho, Paul Roche 3.71 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho by Sappho, Willis Barnstone 4.26 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	A Garland: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, J.G.F. Powell 4.11 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho, Aaron Poochigian (Translator), Carol Ann Duffy (Introduction) 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric & Women Poets of Ancient Greece by Sappho, W. R. Johnson (Foreword by) 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating: