Usually paired with Homer as one of the two greatest ancient Greek poets, Sappho's poety has come down to us only in fragments. Even these fragments are so evocative, however, that Sappho has become a mirror which each generation uses to reinterpret the question: "What is erotic?" 
Sappho and Phaonby Mary Robinson [1796] The doomed love of Sappho for Phaon, by the 18th century 'English Sappho,' Mary Robinson
The Poems of Sapphotranslated by John Myers O'Hara [1910] A modern interpretive rendition of Sappho into English
The Poems of SapphoEnglish and Transliterated Greek translated by Edwin Marion Cox [1925] A collection of Sappho interpretations
The Poems of Sappho (Unicode)English and Greek translated by Edwin Marion Cox [1925] Sappho in the original Greek
The Songs of Bilitisby Pierre Louÿs, tr. by Alvah C. Bessie [1926] A famous hoax, which has had a huge impact on our modern perception of Sappho.
Aphrodite (Ancient Manners)by Pierre Louÿs, tr. by Willis L. Parker, ill. by Frank J. Buttera [1932] Tragic loves of a courtesan in Ptolemaic Egypt, from the author of Bilitis. |
![Frontispiece to Mary Robinson translation of Sappho [1796] (Public Domain Image)](sappho.jpg)
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