Sappho
By: Jane McIntosh Snyder and Camille-Yvette Welsch ; [introduction by Lesléa Newman].
Contributors: Welsch, Camille-Yvette.
Series: Gay and lesbian writers
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Sappho.; Poets, Greek -- Biography.; Lesbians -- Greece -- Biography.; Women and literature -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.; Lesbos Island (Greece) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: A biography of the ancient Greek poet Sappho who live around 610 to 580 B.C.E. on the island of Lesbos. Though little remains of Sappho's works, her poems are believed to explore the theme of significant love between women.
Notes: "Works by and about modern women poets influenced by Sappho": p. 123.
Includes bibliographical references and index.