Sappho
650 BC–569 BC
ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC)
writer · composer · poet
Born in Lesbos
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Sappho:
- Aesop (619 BC–563 BC)
- Thales (624 BC–545 BC)
- Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC)
- Solon (629 BC–559 BC)
- Anaximander (609 BC–545 BC)
- Nebuchadnezzar II (641 BC–561 BC)
- Anaximenes of Miletus (584 BC–527 BC)
- Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)