Lefkada
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Lefkada, also known as Lefkas or Leukas and Leucadia, is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. The principal t
View of Lefkada (city)
The island of Lefkada in a NASA World Wind satellite picture.
Sunrise in front of the road entrance of the city
Megali Petra beach
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
Lefkada
…windsurfing center. There are ferries to Kefalonia and Ithaca from Vasiliki. South of Vasiliki is Cape Lefkada, where Cephalus and the Greek female poet Sappho allegedly leapt to their death from the 30 m high cliffs on two separate occasions. The famous beach of Porto Katsiki is located on Lefkada's west…
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.