Sappho’s (612 BC-?) work exists in fragments with the exception of one poem written for Aphrodite. Themes in Sappho’s poetry run from marriage to hopeless love to the bounty of the night sky. Often Sappho’s poems are written with women in mind, essentially homosexual in nature; and it should be interesting to note Sappho was born on the island of Lebos, from which the word Lesbian is derived. It has been suggested that Sappho is the originator of her own meter, thus named Sapphic Meter.
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