sappho in English

noun

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( early 7th century bc ) , Greek lyric poet who lived on Lesbos. Many of her poems express her affection and love for women and have given rise to her association with female homosexuality.

Use "sappho" in a sentence

1. Archilochus, Sappho, Alcman, Guy Davenport (1980)

2. Sappho and Alcaeus Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1881

3. Then marry Maria, the chemist... or that idiot Sappho.

4. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are …

5. Alcaeus （ Ἀλκαῖος).A famous lyric poet of Mitylené, in Lesbos, an elder contemporary of Sappho

6. If it will help you think of me as Sappho, Sonya Taaffe, Blossomry 1 “time snake,” N

7. Mosaic in the ceiling vault with the names of ancient lyric poets- Theocritus, Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho

8. Dinah, Attainted and convicted of pedantry, because she spoke grammatically, was nicknamed the Sappho of Saint-Satur

9. 3 If a stanza from Sappho, for instance, were to fall on your foot, it might hurt.

10. The poems are supposed to be by Sappho(Sentencedict), but they are actually of doubtful authenticity.

11. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of …

12. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry.

13. On the loss of Alcaeus's poetry and its subsequent fortunes, see especially Edgar Lobel's edition of Sappho (Oxford, 1925), pp

14. [1] The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry.

15. 7 Greek culture was climbing toward its classical peak, thanks to natural philosophers (Thales, Parmenides), early political leaders (Solon), engineers (Chersiphron), and poets (Sappho,(www.Sentencedict.com) Pindar).

16. "If it will help you think of me as Sappho" in Blossomry #1, October 2017 "Cosmopolitan Bias" in The Cascadia Subduction 7.3, October 2017

17. Campbell has decided to translate the Greek language of Sappho and Alcaeus into English very simply and literally, word for word, as much as possible, and this fidelity to the original is …

18. / ˌɑː.θenˈtɪs.ə.t̬i / the quality of being real or true: The poems are supposed to be by Sappho, but they are actually of doubtful Authenticity. The Authenticity of her story is beyond doubt.

19. Asteroid 172 Baucis An ancient Greek poet whose work is now lost, contemporaneous with Sappho and Erinna, apostrophized in Erinna's long poem The Distaff: Erinna#The Distaff An ancient Greek wrestler from Troezen

20. Campbell has decided to translate the Greek language of Sappho and Alcaeus into English very simply and literally, word for word, as much as possible, and this fidelity to the original is a great help for the reader

21. This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods.

22. Nonetheless, Alcaeus could have used both ὐπά and ὐπό, which is the inscriptional form.” [38] In short, Hooker completely rejects the view that ὐπά is genuine Lesbian, whereas Bowie is perhaps more cautious than Hooker and suggests that ὐπά was used by Alcaeus (and presumably Sappho), with the possibility that archaic Lesbian