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Sappho (other)
Sappho (died ) was an ancient Greek poet. Sappho may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Sappho (painting), an 1890s art piece by Ernst Stückelberg * ''Sappho'' (play), an 1818 tragedy by Franz Grillparzer * ''Sappho'' (film), a 1921 German silent film starring Pola Negri *''Sapho ou La fureur d'aimer'', 1971 French film with Marina Vlady and Renaud Verley *''Sappho'', a 1963 opera by Peggy Glanville-Hicks Organisations * Sappho (organisation), a lesbian social group in the United Kingdom * Sappho for Equality, an LGBT rights campaign group in East India Other people with the name *Sappho Leontias (1832–1900), Greek writer Places *Sappho, Washington, an unincorporated community in the United States * Sappho Point, a headland on the island of South Georgia Science * ''Sappho'' (bird), a hummingbird genus *80 Sappho, a stony, main-belt asteroid Ships * – one of several mercantile vessels * – one of five vessels of the British Royal Navy, or two planned vessels * � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sappho
Sappho (; el, Σαπφώ ''Sapphō'' ; Aeolic Greek ''Psápphō''; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is extant has mostly survived in fragmentary form; only the "Ode to Aphrodite" is certainly complete. As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams attributed to Sappho are extant, but these are actually Hellenistic imitations of Sappho's style. Little is known of Sappho's life. She was from a wealthy family from Lesbos, though her parents' names are uncertain. Ancient sources say that she had three brothers; Charaxos (Χάραξος), Larichos (Λάριχος) and Eurygios ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Stückelberg (painter)
Ernst Stückelberg (baptized Johann Melchior Ernst Stickelberger; 21 February 1831 – 14 September 1903) was a Swiss painter native to Basel, born to a family that traced its connection to the city back to the 14th century. He died of complications of diabetes. He was one of the most popular artists of his generation, of the romantic tradition, producing many paintings of various themes (portraits, country and village scenes, and allusions to history), including a series on the Swiss national hero William Tell. He formally took the name Stückelberg in 1881; this was duly registered by the Basel authorities. Background & early art school Stückelberg came from an aristocratic Basel family, son of Emanuel Stickelberger and Susanna Berry. Following the early death of his father in 1833, he was brought up by his uncle, the architect Melchior Berry, to whom he was apprenticed. His leanings were towards art, having had formative school instruction under Hieronymus Hess and Ludwig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sappho (play)
''Sappho'' (1818) is a tragedy by Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer. Plot The plot is based on a tradition that Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, threw herself from the high Lesbian cliffs into the sea when she found that her love for the youth Phaon was unrequited, and that he preferred her maid, named Melitta in the play, to her. Background Following the success of his first great tragedy of fate, ''Die Ahnfrau'' (The Ancestress), which was written in 16 days, Franz Grillparzer wrote this second poetic drama, ''Sappho'', also composed at white heat, and resembling ''Die Ahnfrau'' in the general character of its poetry although differing from it in form and spirit. In its conception, ''Sappho'' is half way between a tragedy of fate and a more modern tragedy of character; in its form, too, it is half way between the classical and the modern. An attempt is made to combine the passion and sentiment of modern life with the simplicity and grace of ancient masterpieces. Its classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sappho (film)
''Sappho'' (also known as ''Mad Love'') is a 1921 German silent film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Pola Negri as the title character. Alfred Abel, best known for his role as John Fredersen in ''Metropolis A metropolis () is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. A big c ...'' (1927), appears in the role of Andreas De La Croix, the insane brother. Plot Richard De La Croix has a brother, Andreas, who has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A man-about-town named Teddy takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets Richard, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas insane. Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways behind her so that she can have him. Sappho casts off her previous l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Vlady
Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress. Biography Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career. From 1955 to 1959, she was married to actor/ director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of French Resistance. Vlady was married to Soviet poet/songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky from 1969 until his death in 1980. She lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003. Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for '' The Conjugal Bed''. In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Vlady starred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaud Verley
Renaud Verley (born 9 November 1945) is a French actor. He appeared in more than twenty films since 1965. His brother Bernard Verley Bernard Verley (born 4 October 1939) is a French actor and producer. Biography Former student of les ''Beaux-Arts'' in Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. O ... is also an actor. Filmography References External links * 1945 births Living people French male film actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (29 December 191225 June 1990) was an Australian composer and music critic. Biography Peggy Glanville Hicks, born in Melbourne, first studied composition with Fritz Hart at the Albert Street Conservatorium in Melbourne. There she also studied the piano under Waldemar Seidel. She spent the years from 1932 to 1936 as a student at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied piano with Arthur Benjamin, conducting with Constant Lambert and Malcolm Sargent, and composition with Ralph Vaughan Williams. (She later asserted that the idea that opens Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony was taken from her Sinfonietta for Small Orchestra (1935), and it reappears in her 1953 opera '' The Transposed Heads''). Her teachers also included Egon Wellesz, in Vienna, and Nadia Boulanger, in Paris. She was the first Australian composer whose work, her Choral Suite, was performed at an International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) Festival (1938). From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sappho (organisation)
Sappho was an English lesbian social club founded in 1972 by Jackie Forster and others. The club, whose namesake was the poet Sappho of Lesbos, met every Tuesday at The Chepstow, a public house in the Notting Hill district of London. The group advertised their meetings in the magazines ''Time Out London'' and ''City Limits''. Until 1981, the club published an eponymous monthly magazine with a peak circulation of about 1,000 copies. Forster founded and edited the magazine after writing for ''Arena Three'' (of the Minorities Research Group), which had folded soon before. Sappho distributed their magazine at their meetings, and also at such lesbian venues as Gateways, a nightclub in Chelsea. Back issues of the magazine are now held in the Hall–Carpenter Archives. Sappho continued to meet regularly until the late 1990s, each week inviting guest speakers such as Miriam Margolyes, Maureen Duffy, and Anna Raeburn Anna Raeburn (born 3 April 1944) is a British broadcaster, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sappho For Equality
Sappho for Equality is an organization based in Kolkata, India, working for the rights of lesbians, bisexual women, and trans men in Eastern India. It focuses on community empowerment and support, engagement with civil society and other organizations, and advocacy and lobbying. History Sappho for Equality was founded out of Sappho, an organization established in June 1999 by three middle-class Bengali lesbian couples, inspired by the 1996 film ''Fire''. The organization was named after the 6th century Greek poet. According to Sappho for Equality's website, Sappho worked to "provide safe space and emotional support for sexually marginalized women and female to male transpersons," but moved on to "rights/justice based framework to fight homophobia, discrimination and violence against LBT persons." Core members of Sappho founded Sappho for Equality in 2003, focusing on activism and public outreach. According to Sappho for Equality's website, "Sappho today exists parallel to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sappho Leontias
Sappho Leontias ( Greek: Σαπφώ Λεοντιάς) ( Constantinople, 1830 or Moutoullas, 1832 – Constantinople, 1900) was a Cypriot writer, feminist, and educator. Early life and education Sappho was born as Sappho Clerides (Σαπφώ Κληρίδη) in 1830 Constantinople or according to other accounts in 1832 in Moutoullas village, in Nicosia district. Leontias was her literary nickname. Her father was Leontios Clerides (Λεόντιος Κληρίδης) from Marathasa, he was a well known teacher and Hellenist. Leontios was possibly the headmaster of the Greek School of Nicosia (Ελληνικής Σχολής Λευκωσίας) between 1840 and 1845. Sappho was educated by him and later founded with him a number of schools in Cyprus and in Leros. Her mother was Sophia Clerides (Σοφία Κληρίδη) and her sister Emilia Leontias-Kteni (Αιμίλια Λεοντιάς-Κτενή). Career She taught in Nicosia schools for 7 years and then at Morphou. In 1854 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sappho, Washington
Sappho is an unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The town is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 101 and State Route 113, in a largely forested area, and features parks and recreational facilities. Sappho is a former logging area. The town was founded by Martin Van Buren Lamoreux, who left St. John, Kansas in 1889 with 8 of his 10 children, his second wife and her 3 children from a prior marriage. Arriving in Seattle, some of the party settled on Lake Union, but Lamoreux, thinking that land worthless, set out for the Olympic Peninsula. Traveling by steamer from Seattle, they landed at an Indian settlement called Pysht on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and hiked inland 20 miles through the rainforest to their claim. The town was named for the Greek poet Sappho, whom Lamoreux admired. The town was organized so all family members had a duty. Lamoreux was the postmaster and was called "Judge" because he had read law in his youth, and was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sappho Point
Thatcher Peninsula () is a mountainous peninsula in north-central South Georgia. Its total area is approximately , with roughly covered in vegetation. It terminates to the north in Mai Point, rising between Cumberland West Bay to the west, and Cumberland East Bay and Moraine Fjord to the east. It is bounded to the southwest and south by Lyell Glacier and Hamberg Glacier. King Edward Cove on the east side of the peninsula is the site of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Grytviken station and the disused whaling station of the same name. Thatcher Peninsula was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1991, at the suggestion of members of the Royal Geographical Society, after Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister, 1979–90. She was described by Sir Vivian Fuchs, chair of the Foreign Office's Antarctic Place Names Committee, as 'a major figure in the history of South Georgia', for her role in the Falklands War. Thatcher was, according to frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
