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Sappho

630 BC - 570 BC

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Sappho (en grec ancien Σαπφώ / Sapphṓ) est une poétesse grecque de l’Antiquité qui a vécu aux VIIe et VIe siècles av. J.-C., à Mytilène sur l’île de Lesbos. Très célèbre durant l’Antiquité, son œuvre poétique ne subsiste plus qu’à l’état de fragments (papyrus d'Oxyrhynque no 7, notamment). Sa célébrité provient de son excellence poétique, qui en fait un modèle admiré jusqu’à aujourd’hui, et du fait qu’on l’a considérée pendant longtemps comme « la première voix de femme », mais aussi de ce qu’elle a exprimé dans ses écrits son attirance pour d’autres femmes, d’où le terme « saphisme » pour désigner l’homosexualité féminine, tandis que le terme « lesbienne » est dérivé de Lesbos, l’île où elle a vécu. En savoir plus sur Wikipédia

Her biography is available in 109 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2024). Sappho is the 77th most popular écrivain (down from 52nd in 2024), the 25th most popular biography from Greece (down from 20th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Greek ÉCrivain.

Sappho was an ancient Greek poet, renowned for her lyric poetry that expressed deep emotions, particularly love and desire, often directed toward women. Her work, though mostly surviving in fragments, has made her an enduring symbol of female creativity and LGBTQ+ identity throughout history.

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Among Écrivains

Among écrivains, Sappho ranks 77 out of 7,302. Before her are Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, Romain Rolland, Charles Perrault, Umberto Eco, and Giacomo Casanova. After her are Toni Morrison, George R. R. Martin, Lord Byron, Nikolai Gogol, D. H. Lawrence, and Daniel Defoe.

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Among people born in 630 BC, Sappho ranks 2. Before her is Nebuchadnezzar II. After her are Jehoahaz of Judah, Stesichorus, and Amytis of Media. Among people deceased in 570 BC, Sappho ranks 1. After her is Pittacus of Mytilene.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Sappho ranks 25 out of 1,024. Before her are Aeschylus (-525), Bayezid II (1447), Plutarch (46), Protagoras (-486), Philip II of Macedon (-382), and Kösem Sultan (1590). After her are Phidias (-490), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921), Draco (-650), Spartacus (-109), Xenophon (-430), and Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769).

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Among Écrivains In Greece

Among écrivains born in Greece, Sappho ranks 6. Before her are Homer (-800), Sophocles (-497), Aristophanes (-448), Euripides (-480), and Aeschylus (-525). After her are Pindar (-517), Menander (-342), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Arion (-700), and Archilochus (-680).

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