![]() ![]() ![]() Today, though, less than seven hundred lines of Sappho’s poetry are extant. Many scholars believe that the collection probably contained nine books for the nine Muses. In the third century BCE, the Greek scholars working at the Great Library of Alexandria produced a standard text for all of Sappho’s poems that was divided into at least eight “books” or rolls of papyrus. She produced an enormous body of poems, but, sadly, extremely little of her work has survived to the present day. She was known as the “tenth Muse” and some ancient authors regarded her work as on par with that of Homer (the putative author of the Iliad and the Odyssey and most revered of all ancient Greek poets) himself. 570 BCE) was the most praised and highly regarded of all Greek lyric poets in antiquity. ![]()
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