Sappho

Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, probably around 620-550 BC. In antiquity, she was considered a great lyric poet, referred to by Plato as ‘the tenth Muse’, her likeness appearing on coins. Her work was first published around third century BC, but much of it was lost for years, until papyri fragments of her poems first began to be discovered in 1898.