H ΣΑΠΦΩ Saffo / Sappho (Σαπφώ, B. 630 B.C. Lesbos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece) One of the great Greek lyricists and few known female poets of the ancient world, Sappho was born some time between 630 and 612 BC. She was an aristocrat who married a prosperous merchant, and she had a daughter named Cleis. Her wealth afforded her with the opportunity to live her life as she chose, and she chose to spend it studying the arts on the isle of Lesbos. In the seventh century BC, Lesbos was a cultural…