Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC)

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Poets: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

The death of Sappho. Engraving by A.J. Nargeot.

Sappho. Line engraving by R. Strange, 1787, after C. Dolci.

Sappho about to kill herself by leaping from a cliff. Lithograph by Sands.

Lesbian desire in the lyrics of Sappho / Jane McIntosh Snyder.

Sappho to Lesbia

Poésies de Sapho, suivies de différentes poésies dans le même genre

Sapphus, poetriae Lesbiae, Fragmenta et elogia quotquot in auctoribus antiquis graecis et latinis reperiuntur, cum virorum doctorum notis integris, cura et studio Jo. Christiani Wolfii, in Gymnasio Hamburgensi professoris publici. Qui vitam Sapphonis & in

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Sappho to Lesbia

Poésies de Sapho, suivies de différentes poésies dans le même genre

Sapphus, poetriae Lesbiae, Fragmenta et elogia quotquot in auctoribus antiquis graecis et latinis reperiuntur, cum virorum doctorum notis integris, cura et studio Jo. Christiani Wolfii, in Gymnasio Hamburgensi professoris publici. Qui vitam Sapphonis & in