The poet, Sappho of Lesbos, is known today through a few fragments of her poetry that survive in quotes by others, and through her image in art. Explore some of those images by clicking on the images below and on the following page:
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- Sappho EphesianBust from ancient Greece
- SapphoAthens, about 450 BCE
- Sappho and AlcaeusAthenian depiction of Sappho and Alcaeus, about 450 B.C.E.
- Sappho ReadingVase, about 440-430 B.C.E., from the Polygnotos workshop, Athens
- SapphoImage from Pompeii, about 60 C.E., assumed to depict Sappho
- SapphoBust of Sappho
- Statue of Sappho(no date)
- SapphoWoodcut, Boccaccio, De Cleris Mulieribus, 1473
- Sappho StatueJohann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841), about 1800
- Sappho and PhaonJacques-Louis David, 1809
- Death of SapphoHonoré Daumier, 1842
- SapphoSoma Orlai-Petrich, 1855
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