![]() ![]() Little of Sappho’s poetry survives, and what does is fragmentary. Her expressions of female same-sex desire (“… sweat pours down me / a tremor shakes me …”) have made her an icon for some LGBTQ+ communities. ![]() Today, Sappho’s legacy extends beyond poetry. Sappho of Lesbos is one of the earliest Greek lyric poets, famed in antiquity for the polish and elegance of her verse. 28, 2014, that papyrologist Dirk Obbink of the University of Oxford had identified two new poems by Sappho. Scholars and literary critics were abuzz after The Daily Beast reported on Jan. The announcement follows years of questions about the origins of the fragments, and the origins of a fragment from the same papyrus roll that came to public attention in 2014. Among them are fragments of poetry by the ancient Greek poet Sappho the museum had acquired in 2012. The Museum of the Bible in Washington recently announced it has returned 5,000 fragments of ancient papyrus to Egypt. ![]()
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