Sappho of Lesbos earned the nickname "the tenth muse", behind the nine inspiring deities of the arts and sciences. This nickname, which equates to Sappho, flesh and blood, with the deities promoting inspiration, demonstrating the importance he had in his time, the poet of the island its name. Sappho occupied an important role in the world of image poesía.Su recipientesde decorated ceramics and his face appeared on the coins. He was an intelligent woman and understood in the arts and sciences.
Sappho lived in the sixth century C., a time when poetry was the literary genre of ancient Greece exclencia. His lyrical poems, cocebidos to be accompanied with music, were The most significant of his time, but only retain a small part of his writings. Everything indicates that Sappho was a winner. In charge will be recited poems for weddings and banquets, and it gave him some economic autonomy. We know very little about his life, since there is almost no documentation, but it came from an aristocratic family, had three brothers and was married to a rich man who gave him a daughter named Cleis. In his time, the island of Lesbos was one of the wealthiest places in Greece, but for a while, had to emigrate because of political instability. Although it was estimated that about 580 BC, the exact date of his death and cause.
Now a widow created the "House of the servants of the Muses." There he taught a group of students the art of rhyme, music, dance, literature, science, to make crowns and pendants and flowers. The girls spent a period of their lives very specifically between childhood and marriage, in a kind of training for married life. While the men were trained in the art of war, they did in the art of song and dance.
Sappho The students worshiped Aphrodite, goddess of love, lust, beauty and reproduction, and this custom has often associated the practices lesbian. In addition to worship Aphrodite and Eros, the god of sexual attraction, Sappho's work has a strong erotic dimension, but no difference between males and females, suggesting that Sappho fell in love with her disciples and maintained relationships with many of them . Whatever the case, Sappho was in the middle of a group of women who were left guided by their teachings. It was the spiritual guide of many young people who live in marriage before they had to learn to be happy and then make their husbands happy.
Sappho and Alcaeus fellow are considered the most outstanding poets of the archaic Greek lyric poetry. Sappho invented three eleven-syllable verse and the end of five syllables Adonica known today as Sapphic ode. He wrote nine books of odes, nuptial or wedding songs, elegies and hymns. Of these there are only fragments and two complete poems: the Ode to the woman he loved, collected by Longino in his book Treaty sublime and Ode to Aphrodite, collected by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. In 1703, the Catholic Church ordered to burn all copies of the poems of Sappho, of which only one third was recovered. In 2004 they found new fragments of Sappho, which expand and substantially improve a of those who already had it.
Sources:
Teresa Vallbona, Great Women, the feminine side of the story. Editorial Ocean SL 2010
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safo_de_Mitilene
http://www.erroreshistoricos.com/curiosidades-historicas/sexo-en-la-historia/703-la-poesia-de- Sappho de Lesbos-the-origin-of-the-word-lesbiana.html
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