Ode to Aphrodite
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The Ode to Aphrodite is a lyric poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, in which the speaker calls on the help of Aphrodite in the pursuit o
Sappho Inspired by Love, 1775, Angelica Kauffmann. The text Sappho is writing in this painting comes from lines 25–26 of the Ode to Aphrodite.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2288
Aphrodite, the subject of Sappho's poem. This marble sculpture is a Roman copy of Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Knidos.
Head Sappho Glyptothek Munich
Sappho 31
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Sappho 31 is a lyric poem by the Archaic Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. The poem is also known as phainetai moi after the opening words of its first line, and as the Ode to Anactoria, base
Ode to Aphrodite
…call for the goddess to assist the speaker in all her amorous struggles. With its reference to a female beloved, the "Ode to Aphrodite" is (along with Sappho 31) one of the few extant works of Sappho that provides evidence that she loved other women. The poem contains few clues to the performance context, though…
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Catullus at Lesbia's 1865