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Greek texts are in Edgar Lobel and Denys Lionel Page (eds.), Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta (1955, reissued 1997); and Eva-Maria Voigt Hamm, Sappho et Alcaeus (1971). Texts and translations of, as well as commentary on, selected poems can be found in Denys Lionel Page, Sappho and Alcaeus (1955, reprinted 1975). There are English translations by David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric I (1990, reprint with corrections); M.L. (Martin Litchfield) West, Greek Lyric Poetry (1993); and Diane J. Rayor, Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991). Scholarly studies include Anne Pippin Burnett, Three Archaic Poets: Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho (1983); and Bruno Gentili, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece (1988; originally published in Italian, 1984).
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Article History
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| Invalidated site: Radboud Repository - Sappho (PDF). | Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Missouri - Special Collections and Archives - Leaders and Heroes 2: The Arts - Sappho of Lesbos (ca. 610-570 BCE). | May 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Mexico Open Educational Resources Consortium - Early World Literature: A Restorative Justice Approach - Sappho of Lesbos. | Nov 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Radboud Repository - Sappho (PDF). | May 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Sappho: Putting Together Fragments to Gain an Image of the Tenth Muse. | Apr 16, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Sappho to Taylor Swift: The 2,600-year-old history of 'tortured' poets and sexism. | Jan 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: DePaul University - Sappho: The Poet and the Legend. | Dec 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Poetry Foundation - Sappho. | Oct 26, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Columbia College - The Core Curriculum - Sappho. | Jun 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Brooklyn Museum - Sappho. | May 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Sappho. | Feb 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Classical Literature - Biography of Sappho. | Feb 05, 2019 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Aug 31, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Livius.org - Biography of Sappho. | May 21, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Sappho of Lesbos. | Apr 30, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Academy of American Poets - Biography of Sappho. | Apr 30, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poets.org - Biography of Sappho. | Feb 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: In2Greece - Biography of Sappho. | Feb 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Sappho. | Feb 06, 2013 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Academy of American Poets - Biography of Sappho. |
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| Added new Web site: Isle of Lesbos - Sappho. | Sep 19, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Isle of Lesbos - Sappho. | Sep 19, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Nov 10, 2005 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |