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Sappho (c. 600 B.C.) "A Lesbian poetess of good family, a contemporary of Alcćus and with him the chief creator of the Ćolian personal lyric. Sappho is for us chiefly a name, a theme for the fervent rhetoric evoked by impassioned contemplation of of the few exquisite fragments of her poems that time has spared." (The New International Encyclopaedia Vol. XX. (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 462-463.)
Arthur Mayer Wolfson, Essentials in Ancient History (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company, 1902) 151. (Pitti Gallery, Florence)
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