Someone Will Remember Us: Sappho of Lesbos (c. 630–570 BCE) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about Sappho of Lesbos, the greatest lyric poet of the ancient world, the only woman in the Alexandrian canon of nine, and the origin of the word "lesbian", and the astonishing story of how the small surviving portion of her work came back to us out of an Egyptian rubbish dump.
Sappho was born around 630 BCE at Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, into a wealthy family probably involved in the wine trade. She had brothers named Charaxus and Larichus, may have had a daughter named Cleis, and was exiled to Sicily around 600 BCE, an event recorded on the Parian…
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