sappho

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Definition of sappho in English Turkish dictionary

(isim) safo

{i} safo

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Definition of sappho in English English dictionary

An Ancient Greek female name, particularly borne by poetess from Lesbos who lived between 630 and 570 BC (exact dates unknown)

an ancient Greek poet who lived on the island of Lesbos. Her poems are mostly about love and personal feelings, including love between women, and she is especially admired by lesbians (6th century BC). flourished 610- 580 BC, Lesbos, Asia Minor Greek lyric poet. Little is known of her life beyond the facts that she was born on the island of Lesbos and became the leading spirit of an informal women's society, of a type common among women of good family in her era, formed to pursue graceful pleasures, among them composing and reciting verse. Her principal themes are the loves, jealousies, and hates that flourished in that atmosphere. Her writing, mostly vernacular and not formally literary, is concise, direct, and picturesque and expresses a range of feelings, including her love for other women, which produced the word lesbian (from the island's name). Though she was much admired in antiquity, most of her work was lost by the early Middle Ages; only quotations by other authors of two poems and a number of fragments survive

A Greek poet who lived between 630 and 570 BC (exact dates unknown)

{i} ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos (lived during the late 6th and early 5th centuries B.C.)

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

the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)

Hyphenation

Sap·pho

Etymology

(biographical name.) From Ancient Greek Σαπφώ (Sapphō).