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Sappho

Alternate Names:

Sappho
Psappha
Psappho

Gender: Female

Life Dates: c. 610 - 570 B.C.

Types:

Classical Greek
sexual agency, transgression (homo)
Writer, Poetry

Note: Generally believed to be a lesbian, though there is little evidence of her life outside of her poetry.

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Biographies (13 Total)

Sappho Author: anon0005 . Collection Title: Appleton's Portrait Gallery of Women: Celebrated in History, Poetry, and Romance, for Beauty, Character, and Heroism. 1875
Sappho Author: Anna Maria Lee . Collection Title: Memoirs of Eminent Female Writers, of All Ages and Countries. 1827
Sappho Author: Virginia Moore . Collection Title: Distinguished Women Writers. 1934
Sappho Author: . Collection Title: Herstory. 1995
Sappho Author: Deborah G. Felder . Collection Title: The 100 Greatest Women of All Time. 1996
Sappho Author: Thomas Heywood . Collection Title: The Generall History of Women, Containing the Lives of the Most Holy and Profane. 1657
Sappho Author: Anna Maria Lee . Collection Title: Memoirs of Eminent Female Writers, of All Ages and Countries. 1827
Sappho Author: Mary Cowden Clarke . Collection Title: World-Noted Women; or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages. 1857
Sappho Author: Cicely Mary Hamilton . Collection Title: A Pageant of Great Women. 1910
Sappho, A Famous Poetess Author: anon0001 . Collection Title: Biographium faemineum: The Female Worthies; or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of All Ages and Nations, who Have Been Eminently Distinguished for Their Magnanimity, Learning, Genius, Virtue, Piety, and Other Excellent Endowments...Containing (Exclusive of Foreigners) the Lives of above Fourscore British Ladies...Collected from History, and the Most Approved Biographers, and Brought Down to the Present Time. 1766
Sappho (Psappho) Author: Gail Meyer Rolka . Collection Title: 100 Women Who Shaped World History. 1994
Sappho to Erynna Author: Madeleine de Scudéry . Collection Title: Les Femmes illustres ou les Harangues heroïques. 1642
The Last Song of Sappho Author: Felicia Hemans . Collection Title: Records of Woman: With Other Poems. 1828