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Sappho (Sappho)

Sappho was a Greek poet from Lesbos. Her lyric poems survive mostly in fragments, and later Romans treated her as the great woman poet.

Grades 7–8. Authors and genres.

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Lesbos on the map and Sappho the poet belong together.

Latin words that go with this card: carmen, femina.

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