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, ...

A chance inquiry by an unidentified collector has led to a spectacular literary discovery: Parts of two previously unknown poems by Sappho, the great Greek poetess of the 7th Century B.C. One of the ...

If people know anything at all about Sappho these days, it’s probably that she was a lesbian. They’re far less likely to know that she was first of all a Lesbian — that is, a native of the Greek ...

Jamie James is the author of "Andrew and Joey: A Novel." No poet of antiquity has been more widely adored than the Greek lyric poet Sappho, the most influential woman in world literature until modern ...

When he published Oxyrhinchus Papyrus #2289 in 1951, Edgar Lobel remarked that “It cannot be said to add much to our knowledge and in two places it brings new darkness.” Yet now a new papyrus roll has ...

Margaret Mountford: lawyer, businesswoman, tv presenter and, most recently, a doctor in Papyrology. Sappho was one of the few women celebrated on Greek vases When the "new papyrus" was discovered in ...