Look up: Sappho

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   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 island of Lesbos; Sappho's poetry is concerned with personal relationships, specifically the love of women; her poetry influenced the works of other ancient poets, including Catullus and Ovid.
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   Sappho
   [n] - the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos
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   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 her poems express a keen sense of...
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   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 .
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   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) ...
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   Sappho
   noun the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)
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   Sappho
   `Sappho` (Attic Greek ` , Aeolic Greek ` ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. In history and poetry texts, she is sometimes associated with the city of Mytilene on Lesbos (Carson 2002); she was also said to have been born in Eresos, another city on Lesbos. Her birth was sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throug...
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   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.
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   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 ...
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    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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    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]
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    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...
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