NOUN
- the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)
How To Use Sappho In A Sentence
- The word physiologic implies something healthy and normal, but Sappho's poems are not healthy and normal; they are abnormal, they are pathologic. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
- In the phrase, borrowed from Sappho , that the social scientists use to sum up the common perception, what is beautiful is good.
- The original version seems to have included some poems, which may explain why Sappho, an ancient Greek poet from whom the term sapphic is derived, is mentioned on the cover although none of her work appears inside. Paperback Cover Cavalcade 5
- Also, thanks to Alun of archaeoastronomy for letting me know about this program on Sappho. Homer and Sappho
- I'm hoping this Dancing-with-the-Scars dark fairy tale -- for it feels like Aronofsky has gone back to the fabulistic Germanic roots of the original Swan Lake narrative -- does not really mean the only fix for good girls is just a dose of self-stimulation with a bit of Sappho and the boss on the side which rebounds on us anyway, in the end. Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Black Swan , Or Letting Your Inner Bad Girl Out
- But I look at some of the Greats with a capital G of the past — take Sappho (who has come up in another conversation), who wrote in an Aeolic dialect of ancient Greek — in an island vernacular — for what must have been the tiniest of audiences by our standards. Anxiety, a rant in three fits : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- In her book, ‘The Sappho Companion’, Margaret Reynolds says there's something strange, remote and ultimately unrecoverable about Sappho's writing.
- As long as we're upping the stakes here, I sure wish somebody would return the Library of Alexandria that I loaned out, along with the complete works of Archilochus and Sappho. Making Light: Universal Lending Library Amnesty Thread
- The Daughters of Sappho kept a vigil in front of the courthouse. DOUBTING THOMAS
- Aeolic, Sappho's dialect, didn't have initial rough breathings, so the article would be "o," not "ho. Sappho in Greek! And did the Romans "invade" Britain?
