Sappho

Person · Open Library

Born

640 BCE

Died

570 BCE

Works

228

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Toronto

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,917

Total plays

12,684

Sappho (pronounced /ˈsæfoʊ/ in English; Attic Greek Σαπφώ IPA: , Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω ) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the canonical list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sappho">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Chikungunya Virus Transmission Potential by Local Aedes Mosquitoes in the Americas and Europe

   · 2015 · cited 119x

2. Comparison between panoramic and intra‐oral radiographs for the assessment of alveolar bone levels in a periodontal maintenance population

   · 2003 · cited 109x

3. Thyroid Hormone Levels Associated with Active and Passive Cigarette Smoking

   · 2009 · cited 67x

4. Our Virtual Tribe: Sustaining and Enhancing Community via Online Music Improvisation

   · 2021 · cited 44x

5. Challenges to ethical obligations and humanitarian principles in conflict settings: a systematic review

   · 2019 · cited 44x

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Quotes

• “Come hither from Crete to this holy temple, where is your graceful grove of apple-trees, and altars smoking with frankincense. In it cool water sounds through apple-boughs; all the place is shadowed with roses, and from the quivering leaves sleep comes down. In it a meadow blossoms with spring flowers, where horses pasture, and there the breezes breathe sweetly....There, Cyprian, take chaplets and pour softly in gold cups nectar mingled with our feasting.”
• “Look at him, just like a god,that man sitting across from you,whoever he is,listening to yourclose, sweet voice,your irresistible laughterAnd O yes,it sets my heart racing—one glance at youand I can't get any words out,my voice cracks,a thin flame runs under my skin,my eyes go blind,my ears ring,a cold sweat pours down my body,I tremble all over,turn paler than grass.”
• “The stars hide away their shining form around the lovely moon when in all her fullness she shines (over all) the earth.”
• “Eros has shaken my mind,wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks.”
• “I loved you, Atthis, once, long, long ago...You seemed to me a small, ungainly child.”
• “A handsome man guards his image a while;a good man will one day take on beauty.”

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Wikidata facts

Image

Bust Sappho Musei Capitolini MC1164.jpg

Residence

Lesbos

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