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  • NAME: Sappho
  • OCCUPATION: Poet
  • BIRTH DATE: 580
  • DEATH DATE: 570
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Lesbos, Greece
  • AKA: Psappho

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Ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, from which the term lesbian was derived, and wrote poetry expressing her love of women.

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Sappho was born c. 610 B.C. in Lesbos, Greece. She was temporarily exiled to Sicily c. 600 B.C. During her lifetime she wrote love poems expressing her love for both men and women. Sappho died c. 570 B.C. in Lesbos, Greece. Her poems were posthumously compiled into nine books in the third century B.C. As of the 19th century, the word lesbian was thought to be derived from the name of her town.

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