Sappho

• Sappho (c.630 – c.570 BCE) was one of the Nine Lyric Poets of Ancient Greece. She came from the island of Lesbos and wrote lyric poetry to be sung whilst accompanied by a Lyre.
• The majority of Sappho’s poetry has been lost, with only one complete poem to have survived, ‘Ode to Aphrodite’.

Nine Lyric Poets

• Sappho was highly esteemed in the Ancient World.
• The Greek Alexandrian scholars included Sappho in the canon of the Nine Lyric Poets.