Her name alone means many things. Ancient Greek poet Sappho, who Plato proclaimed the Tenth Muse, inspired the adjective for media around women loving women. She pioneered an eponymous meter favored ...

"Lesbian" is a demonym for the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos, so why does it today describe female homosexuality?

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Imagine that every copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio had been destroyed some 350 years ...

Selby Wynn Schwartz’s After Sappho is a unique work of fiction that resembles a group biography on the travails of 20th-century queer feminist artists. Sculpture of the Greek poet Sappho, 1880. (Photo ...

Few poets in human history have inspired such lasting devotion as Sappho. Yet, for the majority of Sappho’s readers over the millennia, her poetry, composed in the Aeolic dialect, has always been ...

For those who have read the fragmented remains of the Greek poet, Sappho the loss of most of her poetic corpus is something to regret. With a mere two complete poems extant from nine books of verse, ...

Sappho has a new poem out. This news is even more exciting than a new album by David Bowie. Sappho was born on the Greek island of Lesbos in the late seventh century BC, after all, and not much her ...

Her real name is Ψαπφοι—Psappho, in English—much more waterlogged and harder-edged than the downy s and faded f’s we commonly use to pronounce it. You’ve got to stutter when pronouncing Sappho’s real ...