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Sappho (disambiguation)

Sappho (died c. 570 BC) was an ancient Greek poet.

Sappho may also refer to:

Places

People with the name

  • Sappho Leontias (1832–1900), Greek writer

Dramatic works

  • Sappho (play), an 1818 play by Franz Grillparzer
  • Sappho (film), a 1921 German silent film by Dimitri Buchowetzki starring Pola Negri
  • Sapho ou La fureur d'aimer, 1971 French film with Marina Vlady, Renaud Verley
  • Sappho, a 1963 opera by Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Ships

  • HMS Sappho (1806), an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop
  • HMS Sappho (1837), a 16-gun brig-sloop
  • HMS Sappho (1873), a composite screw sloop
  • HMS Sappho (1891), an Apollo class second class cruiser
  • USS Sappho (SP-1427), a transport in commission from 1918 to 1919
  • USS Sappho (AKA-38), an attack cargo ship in commission from 1945 to 1946

Other uses

  • Sappho (bird), a hummingbird genus
  • Sappho (organisation), a lesbian social group in the United Kingdom
  • Sappho (painting), an art piece by Swiss painter Ernst Stückelberg
  • 80 Sappho, an asteroid
  • Sappho for Equality, an organization in Eastern India that works for the rights and social justice of sexually marginalized women and transmen.

See also

  • HMS Sappho, a list of ships
  • Saffo (disambiguation)
  • Sapho (disambiguation)
  • USS Sappho, a list of ships
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