c. 600 BCE/GreekThe only contemporary source which refers to Sappho's life is her own body of poetry, and scholars are skeptical of biographical readings of it. Later biographical traditions, from which all more detailed accounts derive, have also been cast i…
View profile & all 25 Poems / StoriesHe is more than a herohe is a god in my eyes--
Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite!Child of Zeus, Enchantress, I implore thee
Awed by her splendorstars near the lovely
Children astray to their mothers, and goats to the herd,Sheep to the shepherd, through twilight the wings of the bird,
Sleep, darlingI have a small
