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The 22 pages that link to Sappho, each with the reason it gives.

• Lyric poetryRelated: Her poems are central early examples of poetry voiced through desire, memory, and address.

• Classical antiquityRelated: Her poetry reveals a distinct voice within the earliest surviving Greek lyric tradition.

• Archaic GreeceRelated: Her surviving songs show the range of personal lyric beyond epic.

• OvidRelated: Ovid’s Heroides 15 imagines a letter from Sappho to her lover Phaon.

• Greek literatureRelated: Her surviving lyrics reveal a distinct voice within early Greek poetry.

• Ancient Greek literatureRelated: Her poems reveal lyric styles and voices distinct from the epic tradition.

• Queer literatureBroader topic: Her fragments are among the earliest surviving works associated with same-sex desire.

• Women's writingBroader topic: Her fragments anchor discussions of women’s authorship in ancient literary history.

• EroticismRelated: Her poetry makes longing and bodily sensation subjects of literary form.

• Oxyrhynchus PapyriRelated: Oxyrhynchus discoveries added fragments to the record of her poetry.

• H.D.Related: H.D. translated Sappho and drew on her fragmentary lyric voice.

• Edna St. Vincent MillayRelated: Millay’s lyric intensity and exploration of women’s desire invite comparison with Sappho’s surviving poetry.

• LesbosRelated: Her association with the island made Lesbos a landmark in the history of Greek lyric poetry.

• The Book of the City of LadiesBroader topic: Her learning and poetry challenge claims that women lack intellectual ability.

• PoetBroader topic: Sappho’s fragmentary lyrics have strongly influenced ideas about poetic voice and desire.

• AnacreonRelated: Her lyric poetry offers a contemporary comparison for Anacreon’s treatment of love.

• Pierre LouÿsRelated: Louÿs’s fictional Bilitis was presented in a tradition associated with Sappho’s poetry.

• TribadismRelated: Later traditions linked female same-sex desire to Lesbos and its poetic legacy.

• CatullusRelated: Catullus adapted Sappho’s imagery and translated one of her poems into Latin.

• Julia BalbillaCompared with: Balbilla’s Aeolic poetic style evokes a literary tradition associated with Sappho.

• Lesbian eroticaNarrower topic: Her poetry became a lasting source for language and imagery about desire between women.

• Nine Lyric PoetsBroader topic: Her fragmentary poems became the most renowned surviving example of female Greek lyric.