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antigua poeta griega de Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 a. C.)
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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 regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is not has mostly survived in fragmentary form; only the Ode to Aphrodite is certainly complete. As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams formerly attributed to Sappho have survived, but these are actually Hellenistic imitations of Sappho's style.
“The stars hide away their shining form around the lovely moon when in all her fullness she shines (over all) the earth.”
“But thou shalt ever lie dead, nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or thereafter, for thou hast not of the roses of Pieria; but thou shalt wander obscure even in the house of Hades, flitting among the shadowy dead.”
“Sweet mother, I truly cannot weave my web; for I am o’erwhelmed through Aphrodite with love of a slender youth.”
“Now Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature, bitter-sweet.”
“The lovely-voiced harbinger of Spring, the nightingale.”
“Evening, thou that bringest all that bright morning scattered; thou bringest the sheep, the goat, the child back to her mother.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
