1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Sappho

Celebrated for her beauty and poetical talents, was born at Lesbos about 600 years before Christ. She became enamored of Phaon, a youth of Mitylene; but he not reciprocating her passion, she threw herself into the sea from the rock of Leucadia. alludes to her fatal leap in his Evenings in Greece: "The very spot where Sappho sung Her swan-like music, ere she sprung (Still holding in that fearful leap, By her loved lyre) into the deep, And, dying, quenched the fatal fire, At once, of both her heart and lyre."

Moore

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