# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sappho
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:50:45.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sappho"
name: "Sappho"
slug: "sappho"
description: "An ancient Greek poet whose fragments—mostly lost, mostly broken—shaped the language itself: \"sapphic\" and \"lesbian\" both trace back to her and the island where she wrote love poems so precise they were called divine."
tagline: "Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bust_Sappho_Musei_Capitolini_MC1164.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-650"
deathDate: "-570"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           78.48
  momentum:             1.53308622536132
  historical:           26.56968
  currentAttention:     11.57318181506403
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 95
tags:
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    slug: "writers"
  - name: "Writer / Author"
    slug: "writer-author"
  - name: "Poetry"
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  - name: "Classical"
    slug: "classical"
  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_(magbabalak)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Sappho came from wealth on Lesbos around 630 BC and wrote lyric poetry meant to be sung with music. Ancient readers named her the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," and she likely composed some 10,000 lines—nearly all of it now gone. Only the Ode to Aphrodite survives intact; the rest exists in fragments, including the Brothers Poem, discovered in 2014, which names two of her three brothers, Charaxos and Larichos. She had a daughter, referenced in two fragments, and was exiled to Sicily around 600 BC. Her work—personal, immediate, clear—centered on love, family, and religion, and was esteemed by Hellenistic scholars as among the finest lyric poetry ever written. Legend says she leaped from the Leucadian cliffs over unrequited love for a ferryman, though the truth of her later years remains uncertain.