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Sappho, daughter of Scamander and Cleïs, was married (Attic comedy says to a wealthy merchant, but that is apocryphal) and had a daughter also named Cleïs. She became very famous in her day for her poetry—so much so that the city of Syracuse built a statue to honor her when she visited. Her family was politically active, which caused Sappho to travelTravelling ( US: Traveling is the transport of people. Reasons include: tourism, traveling for recreation; this may apply to the traveling itself, or the traveling may just be the necessary investment to arrive at a desired location visiting friends and f a great deal. She was also noted during her life as the headmistress of a sort of Greek finishing schoolA finishing school is a private school for girls that emphasizes cultural studies and prepares students especially for social activities. The name reflects that it follows ordinary school and is intended to complete the educational experience. It may cons for girls. Most likely the objects of her poetry were her students.
She was a lyric poet who developed her own particular meterIn literature, meter or metre (sometimes known as prosody) is a term used in the scansion of poetry, usually indicated by the kind of feet and the number of them. For instance, " iambic pentameter", "dactylic tetrameter", etc. Technical terms in poetic me, known as sapphic meter, and she was credited for leading an aestheticAesthetics (or esthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. The word aesthetics was first used by German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, who helped to establish the study of aesthetics as a separate philosophical field movementAn art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time (usually a few months, years or decades). Art movements were especially important in modern art, whe away from classicalThe word classical has several meanings: Pertaining to the societies of the classical antiquity, ancient Greece or Rome. For example, the Greek and Latin languages, classical architecture and the cult of the Olympian gods. See also Greek mythology and Rom themes of godGreek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are either transcriptions of this spoken word, os, to the themes of individual human experience. An epigram in the Anthologia Palatina ascribed to Plato referred to her as the "tenth Muse".
Sappho wrote mainly love poems, of which only fragments survive, save a single complete poem, Fragment 1, "Hymn to Aphrodite". Given her reputation in the ancient world, since only fragments of her work remain, the world lost a valuable treasure in her work.
Some of her love poems were addressed to women, from which she developed a reputation for lesbianism. The word lesbian itself is derived from the name of the island of Lesbos from which she came. (She is also the origin of its much rarer synonym sapphic, derived from her name.)
Due to its homosexual content—and because of its explicit eroticism—her work was disapproved of by the Christian church, which is arguably the main reason why most of it has not survived, due to a combination of neglecting to copy it.
While in the modern period this content is well known, in ancient and medieval times she was more famous for (according to legend) throwing herself off a cliff due to unrequited love for a male sailor named Phaon. This legend dates to Ovid and Lucian in Ancient Rome and certainly is not a Christian overlay. It is not unusual for significant figures in Greek history to have conflicting accounts told about them. (Of particular note is that a purported consort of hers was named Cercglas of Andros, literally " Penis, from the town of Man"). In any case, as Michel Foucault and many others have argued, ancient Greek society did not conceive of either sex as being usually entirely opposite-sex or same-sex oriented.
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