Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene 1864
by Simeon Solomon
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Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene 1864
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Simeon Solomon
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Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene 1864, Simeon Solomon 1840-1905, The picture depicts Sappho embracing her fellow poet Erinna in a garden at Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho was born at Lesbos in about 612BC. After a period of exile in Sicily she returned to the island and was at the centre of a community of young women devoted to Aphrodite and the Muses.
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