Sappho 600 BC-? Ancient Greek poetess Sappho, a famous female poet in ancient Greece, was also one of the few female poets in the ancient world. She sang poems with full passion, especially Love, lust, longing and the pain that comes with it. She uses poetry as a tribute to the hidden world of women. It can be said that Sappho created the most breathtaking love poetry. Beauty, poet, lover of male poets, the first female poet who committed suicide after being heartbroken, lesbian, the ancestor of modern feminism... It seems that any word that is popular in modern literature can be added to the name Sappho. . If it were Sappho herself, she would probably prefer to use her own poem to describe herself: "The surrounding stars are dim and her brilliance covers the salty ocean and the flowery fields." Since the last century, Sappho's name has become synonymous with lesbianism.
To this day, lesbians are called "Lesbians", which has a lot to do with the "Love of Lesbos" and the ancient Greek poetess Sappho. She was born in Lesbo Island in 612 BC, grew up in a wealthy noble family, and spent a happy girlhood. Later, because the nobles plotted against the tyrant Pitacus, she was implicated and was exiled to Syracuse, Sicily, where she got married and had children. A few years later, the tyrant changed hands, and she returned to Lespo. There, she opened an academy (House of the Gods) to teach girls to write poems, sing, and dance, and created a lyric poetry that she called "Sapphic style." She was very talented and loved by Solon and other seven sages. Plato once called her a muse, the goddess of learning.
She was passionately in love with a girl named Artis, but later the girl left Lesbo with a young man. Shaffer had many emotional entanglements with a young crew member. The etymology of "Lespin" (lesbian) to this day is taken from the meaning of "Safer traveled and entertained young girls in Lesbo".
See "Collected Poems of Sappho", "History of Ancient Greek Culture", "Fragments of Ancient Greek History", "Anthology of Ancient Greek Poems", "Fragments of Ancient Greek Prose", etc. Sappho's homosexuality Experience and gay poetry have been hot topics throughout history.