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| Day 1 - Sappho  | Welcome to A Month of Poems! We'll begin your 30-day sojourn around the world in poems with Sappho, the legendary lyric poet of ancient Greece. Her poems were so universally admired that she was called “the poetess” (as Homer was “the poet”), and Plato suggested she should be honored as one of the Muses, more than human, a goddess of poetry. | | "Hymn to Aphrodite"
The “Hymn to Aphrodite,” also known as “Fragment One,” is the only one of Sappho’s poems that has survived to our day in its entirety—because it was quoted in full in the work of a later Roman admirer, the orator Dionysus. It is a prayer to the goddess of love, pleading for divine intervention to inspire passion in the heart of the poet’s unrequited love.
| For further reading: Profile of Sappho
Her life, her legend, her poetry, and links to buy her books in English translation.
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