A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

If people know anything at all about Sappho these days, it’s probably that she was a lesbian. They’re far less likely to know that she was first of all a Lesbian — that is, a native of the Greek ...

Sappho, who dates from the 7th century BCE, is considered by many scholars to be one of the world’s greatest love poets, the woman who “gave us the metaphors for passion — ‘I burn for you’ [and] ‘love ...

When he published Oxyrhinchus Papyrus #2289 in 1951, Edgar Lobel remarked that “It cannot be said to add much to our knowledge and in two places it brings new darkness.” Yet now a new papyrus roll has ...

Once upon a time, legendary lyric poet Sappho was having a really lousy night. And while someone else might have just moped the night away, the poet set her blues to verse. Now, astronomers—who ...

Sappho's "Midnight Poem" describes the night sky over Greece, which has allowed astronomers to accurately calculate when it was written. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

Writing on the literary representation of women in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf mused that "What one must do to bring her to life was to think poetically and ...

A tattered scrap of papyrus has been found to feature original Sappho poetry dating back to the 7th century BC. Oxford papyrologist Dr. Dirk Obbink was asked to translate the ancient text by the ...