Sappho

Sappho (Lesbian origin) (~ 630 to 570 BC), was Ellinida poetess from Lesbos, especially known from antiquity until today for her poems. With his name has been connected and lesbian sex.For life little is known. It is likely that he was born in Eressos of Lesbos. He was a contemporary of Alcaeus and Pittakos. . According to the Byzantine Suda, probably married a rich from Andros, the Kerkyla, with whom she had a daughter, named and this key according to the custom of the time. Due to political unrest in lesbian who led the island's aristocracy in exile from the capital Mytilene, Sappho fled temporarily to Sicily. Later, after the overthrow of tyranny, by Pittacus of Mytilineos, turned in Mytilini. This relationship, which was inspired by religious ideas, it was something that made the first Sappho. Testified that other women of the time kept such conservatories. But the relationship with the students Sappho was considered unseemly later because he had sexual dimensions and so it went down in history as 'lesbian love'.A downstream legend says that Sappho because of unfulfilled love for the beautiful new Phaon, who rejected and abandoned, fell from the cliffs into the sea of Lefkada. It is not known if there was even a person with this name or whether it is a legend. It is probably a misinterpretation of the poem, where Sappho celebrates the beauty of Phaon, following the Venus

Sappho is the poetry that was written in the wind dialect as the most important lyric poet of antiquity. Plato calls it "wise" and "tenth muse" Anacreon "Idimelon" Lucian "melixron afchima Lesbians" Julian and Antipater the "female Homer" and "price Lesbian women", and Strabo 'marvelous monster. "Horace in the second ode tells us that even the dead to the underworld hear songs with admiration in sacred silence. After her death in her native Lesbos coin minted with the form. Syracuse and Pergamon erected statues, while in Syracuse built a cenotaph in memory of her.

Echoes in the later years [Edit]

Since the seventh century AD the poems of Sappho still be read even in Egypt and later in the era of the Patriarchal School Komninon included in matter of poets such as Sappho and Pindar, rather there was no official censorship of the Christian Church. But it is likely that many of her works have been lost due to non-copying them, because of low demand may have been after the triumph of Christianity and within a stricter view on morality. The Mytilinios also modern poet Odysseas Elytis described it as a "distant cousin" of which grew up playing "the same gardens, around the same pomegranates, above themselves cisterns" and dedicated one of his little epsilon. In 1986 he released the album in Greece "Sappho" in music production and Vlassopoulos Spyrou of Dionysis Savvopoulos, with 12 set to music poems of Sappho, translated by Sotiris Kakisis and interpretation Aleka Kanellidou.

Sappho wrote love poems, hymns to the gods and epithalamia (wedding songs). Her poetry vibrates from spontaneity and strong feelings. Several verses reveal intense eroticism and lyricism. Of the poems, collected and published by the Alexandrians in books, the most famous were the hymns and Epithalamia. Perhaps no other writer can not compare with the beauty of Sappho thought in the verse melody and intensity of feelings. Except short excerpts have survived intact only one Hymn to Aphrodite ("Poikilothron immortal" Afrodita "), the Ode" Otoi the eratai "and one said to the myth of Eos (Dawn) and Tithonou discovered by restoration of papyrus sturgeon and adopted in 2005. These are translated in most European languages.

Three epigrams by the name of Sappho by Stephanos of Meleager exist in the Palatine Anthology, strongly disputed (VI 269, VII 489, VII 505).