Sappho
historical figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Sappho the musical
in the texts
Orations
Lyric poet whose love-songs are judged unsuitable for a king to sing.
nor would it be fitting for kings to sing the love-songs of Sappho or of Anacreon, but, if any at all, the songs of Stesichorus or of Pindar, should there be any necessity.
For Sappho said it very well;
Rhodogune the warlike, Semiramis the regal, Sappho the musical, Timandra the beautiful;
Stromata
Poetess named in the catalogue of celebrated women poets.
I pass over the others, then, for the length of the discourse, neither cataloguing the poetesses—Corinna and Telesilla and Myia and Sappho—nor the women painters, such as Eirene the daughter of Cratinus and Anaxandra the daughter of Nealces, of whom Didymus speaks in the Symposiaca.
The Histories
The Lesbian poet, named as author of a poem bitterly attacking her brother Kharaxus over Rhodopis.
He is bitterly attacked by Sappho in one of her poems.
Phaedrus
Poet Socrates names as a possible unconscious source of the eloquence he feels welling up in him.
but I certainly must have heard something, either from the lovely Sappho or the wise Anacreon, or perhaps from some prose writers.
Letters to Lucilius
Greek lyric poetess
In these books it is inquired what was Homer's country, in these who was the true mother of Aeneas, in these whether Anacreon lived more lustfully or more drunkenly, in these whether Sappho was a public woman, and other things which, if you knew them, you would have to unlearn.