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  1. Sappho
    [disambiguation] Sappho (died ca. 570 BC) was an ancient Greek poet. Sappho may also refer to: ==Places== ==Ships== ==Dramatic works== ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_(disambiguation)

  2. Sappho
    [asteroid] Beautiful revolving sphincter, oops brown painting by Damien Hirst (2003). Household gloss paint on canvas, 72" diameter. Shown in Hirst`s first museum survey, The Agony and the Ecstasy,at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli in 2005.``The Guardian, January 11, 2005 400 x 37...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_(asteroid)

  3. Sappho
    Greek lyric poet and one of the few known female poets of the ancient world; born ca. 630 BCE to Skamandronymos (father) and Kleis (mother); she was of aristocrat birth and married a prosperous merchant, Kerhylas of Andros; she had a daughter named Kleis; Sappho lived in the city of Mytilene on the ...
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  4. Sappho
    [n] - the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=Sappho

  5. Sappho
    (c. 610-c. 580 BC) Greek lyric poet. A native of Lesbos and contemporary of the poet Alcaeus, she was famed for her female eroticism (hence lesbianism). The surviving fragments of he...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  6. Sappho
    Sap'pho noun [ See Sapphic .] (Zoology) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho , having very bright- colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail .
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/16

  7. sappho
    <ornithology> Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-coloured and deeply forked tails. ... Synonym: firetail. ... See: Sapphic. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?sappho

  8. Sappho
    noun the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Sappho

  9. Sappho
    • (n.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/sappho/

  10. Sappho
    (from the article `Carman, Bliss`) ...Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893); three series of Songs from Vagabondia (1894, 1896, 1901), written in collaboration with Richard Hovey, a poet whom ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/30



  1. Sappho
    (from the article `Grillparzer, Franz`) ...`fate tragedy` (Schicksalsdrama), but the characters are themselves ultimately responsible for their own destruction. A striking advance was the ...
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  2. Sappho
    Greek lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style. She ranks with Archilochus and Alcaeus, among Greek poets, for her ... [5 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/30

  3. Sappho
    Sappho (oʊ; Attic Greek Σαπφώ sapːʰɔː, Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω psapːʰɔː) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but l...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

  4. Sappho
    Sappho (săf'ō) , fl. early 6th cent. B.C., greatest of the early Greek lyric poets (Plato calls her “the tenth Muse”), b. Mytilene on Lesbos. Facts about her life are scant. She was an aristocrat, who wrote poetry for her circle of friends, mostly but not exclusively wome...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0843633.html

  5. Sappho
    Sappho is an asteroid discovered on May the 2nd 1864 by Pogson. Combined observations of its opposition in 1899 yielded an approximately exact value for the sun's parallax.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AS.HTM

  6. Sappho
    Greek lyric poet. A native of Lesbos and contemporary of the poet Alcaeus, she was famed for her female eroticism (hence lesbianism). The surviving fragments of her poems express a keen sense of loss, and delight in the worship of the goddess Aphrodite
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0012743.html

  7. Sappho
    [organisation] Sappho was a UK lesbian social group founded in 1972 by Jackie Forster and others. Taking its name from the poet Sappho, it was both a social group, meeting at The Chepstow public house in London`s Notting Hill every Tuesday, and also a long-running magazine until 1981. Sappho...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_(organisation)

  8. Sappho
    [Pacini] Lindisfarne Gospel image originally from Wikimedia. Slight edit with photoshop by Andy V Byers == Licensing: == ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_(Pacini)

  9. Sappho
    [play] Sappho (1818) is a tragedy by Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer. ==Plot== The plot is based on a tradition that Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, threw herself from the high Lesbian cliffs into the sea when she found that her love for the youth Phaon was unrequited, and that he pr...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_(play)

  10. sappho
    1) 'hymn to aphrodite' poet 2) Ancient greek girl name 3) Classical lyric poet 4) Early greek lyric poet 5) Greek lyric poet 6) Greek poet 7) Lesbian 8) Lesbos poet
    Found op 6th century b.c. 9) Plato called her 'the tenth muse' 10) Pl

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