Sappho

c. 7th century BCE–571 BCE

Sappho was an archaic Greek lyric poet associated with the island of Lesbos. Her surviving fragments address desire, memory, ritual, beauty and relationships among women, and became foundational to later lyric traditions.

Sappho’s Stung with Love places Sappho within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty and art, learning and intellectual life.