Tag: sappho

  • A poem by Sappho

    A poem by Sappho

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    A Fayum mummy portrait, a painted portrait on wooden board attached to the body of an usually upper class person before burial in Roman Egypt.              Immortal Aphrodite, on your intricately brocaded throne,             child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, this I pray:             Dear Lady, don’t crush my heart             with pains and sorrows.           But come here, if ever before,             when you heard…

  • Sappho: Two new Poems discovered

    Sappho: Two new Poems discovered

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    Woman with Stylus, an ancient Roman fresco unearthed in Pompeii In the late 19th Century a series of excavations at an ancient rubbish dump in the city of Oxyrhynchus, around 100 miles south of Cairo, were undertaken that found some valuable papyrus scrolls that included a sizeable amount of long-lost poetry by the Greek poet…