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
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.
Nossis
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Nossis was a Hellenistic poet from Epizephyrian Locris in Magna Graecia. Probably well-educated and from a noble family, Nossis was influenced by and claimed to rival Sappho. Eleven or twelve of her e
Marble bust of Nossis by Francesco Jerace
Illustration of Nossis by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, from Renée Vivien's Les Kitharèdes