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Example sentences for: sappho

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From the poet Sappho, who in the sixth century BC was the first to use the lyric to write subjectively and explore the range of female experience, to the Chinese polymath Pan Chao (Ban Zhao), who flourished around AD 100 as historian, poet, astronomer, mathematician and educationalist, the range is startling.
Homer wrote his epic works on Chios; and lyrical poetry was much admired, particularly the work of the poets Archilochos on Paros and Sappho on Lesvos.
The idea that this revolutionary in literary style, this patron of bohemians and radicals, this most famous lesbian since Sappho was a Republican is staggering and delicious.
Sappho wore one.
' There is much previously unrecorded material: button up `cease betting, or lower one's stakes considerably when one is winning'; kipping `masturbating'; sappho term of endearment used between lesbians, hence derisively addressed to passive homosexuals.