Sappho - The Historian's Hut

Sappho - The Historian's Hut

Sappho (said to have flourished in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BCE) “Some say ships, infantry or horsemen The greatest beauty earth can offer; I say it is whatever a person Most lusts after.” From a poem fragment commonly known as Fragment 16, translated here by Aaron Poochigian for Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics, 2009).   An alternative translation is: “Some say the most beautiful thing on the dark Eart…