Poets and Inspirations. Borrador -2

Poets and Inspirations:

SAPPHO of LESBOS

Plato called "The Tenth Muse" and applauded her Lyrics but only fragments survive. 

Ostrakon. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.

One of the earliest surviving images of SAPPHO, from c. 470 BC. She is shown holding a lyre and plectrum and turning to listen to Alcaeus.^[4] 

Alcaeus and SAPPHO. 

Red-figure picture over black, ca. 470 BC. Akragas, Sicily.

Sappho's sexuality has long been the subject of debate.

Sappho and Acaeus (above).

Portrays her staring rapturously at her contemporary Alcaeus.

Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich. Germany.

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   Images of a lesbian Sappho, such as Simeon

             Solomon's painting of Sappho with Erinna (below), were 

                               much less common in the nineteenth century. 

Images. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Simeon_Solomon

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's.

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    Kalpis (pottery), Sappho Painter, ca. 510 BC,  National Museum in  

   Warsaw.

    Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, MNW. POLAND.   

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Red-figure vase (hydria, or kalpis) by the Group of
Polygnotos, ca. 440–430 BC. Seated, Sappho is reading one of her poems to a group of three student-friends. National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 1260. 
 

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In Medieval age Sappho illustrated an earlyincunable of Giovanni Boccaccio De mulieribus claris.    

   

She is portrayed surrounded by books and musical instruments on this incunable, German translation (1474) by 

Heinrich Steinhöwel of De Mulierubus... 

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Parnassus. Raffaello Sanzio.Version showing the figure of Sappho.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) and one more author - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rafael_-_El_Parnaso_(Estancia_del_Sello,_Roma,_1511).jpg

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Mad Love, the U.S. title for the German film Sappho 

(1921). Stars: Pola Negri and Alfred Abel.

                     Goldwyn Pictures - 1923 Lobby Card

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Susy Andersen and Tina Louise, as Sappho, in a publicity photo for SAPPHO THE VENUS OF LESBOS (aka The Warrior Empress).

The Warrior Empress (Italian: Saffo - Venere di Lesbo) is a 1960 Italian-French peplum film directed by Pietro Francisci and starring Kerwin Mathews, Tina Louise and Riccardo Garrone.^[1][2]

   The Muses fly ? ? ? ?