Classical Greece · c. 600 BC
The Tenth Muse
Nine books rot down to one whole poem and an Egyptian rubbish dump keeps the scraps
A stone chronicle called the Parian Marble, cut more than two centuries after her death, records that Sappho sailed from Mytilene into Sicilian exile, and that entry is about as solid as her biography gets: a place, Lesbos; a trade,…
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