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Sappho

June 2024

  • Torrential emotions … You Burn Me.

    You Burn Me review – Sappho and suffering in a macabre meditation on desire and death

    This hour-long reverie from Argentinian film-maker Matías Piñeiro offers chilling insight into the agonies of unrequited love

March 2022

  • Sappho statue

    AI could decipher gaps in ancient Greek texts, say researchers

    From imperial decrees to Sappho’s poems, Ithaca system can find word patterns and suggest age of text

March 2021

  • moon over Broadway

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the Week: Hymn to Aphrodite by Frederick Seidel

  • papyrus fragments

    Doubts cast over provenance of unearthed Sappho poems

September 2018

  • The Guardian, story on Poles in Bognor, thoughts on Brexit etc: (l to r) Eric Yilmaz in he and his brother's Tonsorial Parlor traditional barber's shop in Bognor, West Sussex, shaving and singeing a customer.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Barber Shop by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

    A sharp reflection on the sight of a male muse getting his hair cut provides a neat invitation to read more contemporary Greek poetry

August 2018

  • Statue of Sappho

    Brief letters
    Influential women missing from the list

    Brief letters: What, no Sappho? | Poetry in newspapers | Rain risk for mobility scooters | The Healeys on holiday | Cheap beer in Yorkshire

July 2017

  • Kristin Scott Thomas in Sophocles’ Electra

    Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own

    Women have long been marginalised in the world of ancient texts, but female scholars and translators are finally having their say

April 2015

  • Atmospheric … Rachel Maybank as Atthis and Laure Bachelot as Sappho at the Linbury Studio, London.

    Atthis review – Sappho’s passions in a subtle song cycle

    Georg Friedrich Haas’s 2009 work, sung with authority by Claire Booth, describes the unstable trajectory of the poet’s relationship with a younger woman

September 2014

  • Sappho fresco painting Pompeii

    Poster poems
    Poster poems: Sappho

    Billy Mills: The poet's passionate words have been reinterpreted with each modern age; now it is your turn to muse on moonlight and death

January 2014

  • Sappho T

    Read Sappho's 'new' poem

  • Sappho

    Sappho: two previously unknown poems indubitably hers, says scholar

December 2012

  • Glanville-Hicks: Sappho – review

    A strong cast adds class to a Vaughn Williams-like score and self-conscious libretto that lacks dramatic potency, writes Andrew Clements

August 2012

  • Peggy Glanville–Hicks and Lawrence Durrell

    Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho

    In 1963, novelist Lawrence Durrell and composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks wrote an opera for Maria Callas: it was never performed – until now, writes Sam Jordison

September 2010

  • Bust of Alexander the Great

    Top 10s
    Annabel Lyon's top 10 books on the ancient world

    From Plato to John Updike and Rupert Graves to Sappho, the novelist chooses books that 'subvert, surprise, challenge and please'

July 2010

  • Sappho Holding a Stylus, a fresco painting from Pompeii

    Books blog
    Poster poems: Sapphics

    Billy Mills: Get your Greek thinking caps on: your challenge is an ancient verse form beloved of Sappho, Alcaeus – and Ezra Pound

April 2010

  • Sappho holding a stylus

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Sappho and Phaon by Mary Robinson

    One of the first of the Romantics, and admired by Coleridge, she deserves to be more widely known

January 2010

  • Sappho

    Charlotte Higgins on culture
    Sappho: the great poet of the personal

    Charlotte Higgins: Hardly any of the Greek poet's work survives, but the fragments that remain are enough to make her immortal

May 2008

  • Two women on the beach at Lesbos

    Sun, sea and Sappho

    Life on Lesbos: has the Greek island come to terms with its name? Julie Bindel reports

July 2005

  • Dumbledore's death in the style of Sappho

June 2005

  • After 2,600 years, the world gains a fourth poem by Sappho

    A newly found poem by Sappho, one of the greatest poets of Greek antiquity and seen by some as the finest of any era, is published for the first time today, after being discovered in the cartonnage of an Egyptian mummy. It deals with a theme timeless in both art and soap operas; the stirrings of an ageing body towards the nimbleness, youth and love it once knew.
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