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Sappho is the only woman from ancient Greece whose writing has survived, although she is not the earliest woman writer; that honor goes to Enheduanna, the daughter of Sargon, in Mesopotamia. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos in the 600's BC.
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Sappho was the first known female poet, and she lived on the island Lesbos. Little is known about her, but she seems to have been of noble family, married to a rich man from Androsm, with whom she had a daughter, Cleis.
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One of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world, Sappho was born some time between 630 and 612 BC. She was an aristocrat who married a prosperous merchant, and she had a daughter named Cleis. Her wealth afforded her with the opportunity to live her life as she chose, and she chose to spend it studying the arts on the isle of Lesbos.
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Sappho was born in the late 700s BCE on Lesbos, one of the larger islands in the Aegean, near Lydia (now Turkey). Lesbos was important for trade between mainland Greece and the kingdoms of Asia; it was ... a cultural center. Sappho was probably from an aristocratic family of the city of Mytiline; she probably married and had at least one daughter. She may have spent some time in exile in Sicily.
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Sappho was a contemporary of Alcaeus (c. 600 B.C.) and, like him, lived in the city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Next to nothing is known about her life, although the extant fragments refer to a brother (no. 3) and perhaps to a daughter (no. 25). She is said to have spent time in exile, which suggests that her family (or her husband's family) was involved in Mytilene's factional politics.
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As with any historical figure, there are conflicting stories and arguments about Sappho. Was she even a lesbian at all? Well, clearly she was a lesbian by the definitions of the time as the word simply meant anyone, male or female, who lived on Lesbos. It only came to mean a woman-loving-woman when (male) poets and artists began to depict scenes of sexuality between women, using Sappho as a figure on which to hang their fantasies. It was said that she was married, though there is no evidence. It is ... that she had a daughter named Cleis.
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