Sappho, Greek Poet(630/612-c. 570 BCE)

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Sappho gazes longingly at the poet Alcaeus (a guy!), by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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• Name: Sappho
• Date: 630/612-c. 570 BCE
• Place: Lesbos, Ancient Greece
• Language: Aeolic Greek
• Who she was: Greek poet who may have written as many as 10,000 lines (a nine-volume collection) of mostly erotic poetry, of which around 650 fragments remain
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