Sappho’s poems are erotic, frank and mournful, often centred around the poet’s ardour for her female lovers. Her influence has been so strong that we still feel her presence in the English language, ...

According to popular ancient rumour, the Greek poetess Sappho ended her life by throwing herself off a cliff, in unrequited love for a gorgeous ferryman called Phaon. According to popular ancient ...

A newly found poem by Sappho, acknowledged as one of the greatest poets of Greek classical antiquity and seen by some as the finest of any era, is published for the first time today. Written more than ...

For various reasons, many of them neither literary nor trustworthy, Sappho has always exerted a magnetic yet frustrating attraction on later generations. The frustration is due in part to the fact ...