Erinna
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Erinna was an ancient Greek poet. She is best known for her long poem The Distaff, a 300-line hexameter lament for her childhood friend Baucis, who had died shortly after her marriage. A large fragmen
PSI 1090, which preserves fragments of 54 lines of Distaff
Léon Cogniet, Briseis Laments the Death of Patroclus 1815. The Distaff is a literary version of the ancient Greek funeral lament; Diane Rayor specifically identifies Briseis' lament for Patroclus in Homer's Iliad as a model for the poem
Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene by Simeon Solomon (1864)
Sappho
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Sappho was an ancient Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. She is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, she was widely reg
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…uncertain. She is generally thought to have lived in the first half of the fourth century BC, though some ancient traditions have her as a contemporary of Sappho; Telos is generally considered to be her most likely birthplace, but Tenos, Teos, Rhodes, and Lesbos are all also mentioned by ancient sources as her…
Kalpis painting of Sappho by the Sappho Painter (c. 510 BC)
Head of a woman from the Glyptothek in Munich, possibly a copy of Silanion's fourth-century BC imaginative portrait of Sappho
Sappho, by Enrique Simonet.
Sappho (1877) by Charles Mengin (1853–1933). One tradition claims that Sappho committed suicide by jumping off the Leucadian cliff.