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Sappho, also spelled( in the Aeolic shoptalk spoken by the minstrel) Psappho,( bornc. 610, Lesbos( Greece) — failedc. 570 BCE), Greek lyric
minstrel greatly respected in all periods for the beauty of her jotting style. She ranks with Archilochus and Alcaeus, among Greek muses, for
her capability to impress compendiums with a lively sense of her personality. Her language contains rudiments from Aeolic conversational
speech and Aeolic lyrical tradition, with traces of grand vocabulary familiar to compendiums of Homer. Her phrasing is terse, direct, and
graphic . She has the capability to stand frosty and judge critically her own rhapsodies and grief, and her feelings lose nothing of their force
by being recollected in tranquillity.
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