Tag: Sappho

Euterpe is the Greek muse of lyric poetry, and while she’s really great and all, she is made of mythic material. Sappho, on the other hand, was a real flesh and blood (well, now, soil and worms) gal who wrote honest-to-goodness lyric poems. Sappho was born around 630 BC, on the Isle of Lesbos. She… Continue reading My Muses: Euterpe and Sappho