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Roman copy of a Greek bust from the 5th century BCE. Reads: Sappho of Eressos

Sappho was a famous poet in ancient Greece. In fact, it’s claimed Plato said «Some say the Muses are nine: how careless! Look, there's Sappho too, from Lesbos, the tenth.» Her works endured well into the roman period, but due to changes in the times and her writings being in Aeolic Greek, a harder variant of ancient Greek than the normal one, her works were gradually lost. Apart from being a poet, Sappho is also by many considered to be one of the earliest known lesbians.

Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, in the north-eastern Aegean sea, between modern-day Greece and Turkey. Her poems and reputation have led to the term lesbian, and the less known Sapphic (same meaning), though her poems speak of female and male love of both genders. It's unknown whether these poems are autobiographical, but other parts of her life appear in some of her texts.

The poetry we have from Sappho comes from Egyptian papyri fragments discovered in ancient rubbish heaps, and from a potsherd. Besides this, what we have of her works come from other authors who have quoted her.

The 3rd-century philosopher Maximum of Tyre said this about her: «What else could one call the love of the Lesbian woman than the Socratic art of love? For they seem to me to have practised love after their own fashion, she the love of women, he of boys. For they said they loved many, and were captivated by all things beautiful. What Alcibiades and Charmides and Phaedrus were to him, Gyrinna and Atthis and Anactoria were to her ...»

 Link to one of her poems: http://allpoetry.com/poem/8449293-Drapple-thor-wbr-ned-Aphrodite--by-Sappho

[HQ] Chris Colfer and Roberto Aguire during the Struck premiere’s Q&A at the Publicis, Paris — June 12th, 2013

[HQ] Roberto Aguire and Chris Colfer attending the French Struck premiere at the Publicis, Paris — June 12th, 2013