Sappho's "Midnight Poem" describes the night sky over Greece, which has allowed astronomers to accurately calculate when it was written. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

Sappho is a writer many people recognize without ever having read. Her name appears often, her poems far less so. She survives in fragments, and that fact tends to dominate how she is discussed.

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Attention, luxuriant Graces and beautiful-haired Muses! Scholars have confirmed that they’ve found two heretofore undiscovered poems by the 7th-century-BC master Sappho. In case you haven’t studied ...

A fragment of ancient papyrus given to an expert at Oxford University contains two previously unknown works by Greek poet Sappho, according to his findings. US papyrologist Dr Dirk Obbink asserts they ...

University of Manitoba provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Manitoba provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Sappho of Lesbos is one of the ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus. An ...