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Sappho (6 10- 580 BC) is the most outstanding female lyric poet in ancient Greece and the earliest female poet in the history of European literature.

From the 8th century BC to the 6th century BC, the clan society was further disintegrated, and the slave-owner city-state was gradually formed, which was called the Great Immigrant Era in history. During this period, the main achievements of literature were lyric poems and fables.

The prosperity of lyric poetry is closely related to the reorganization of social structure and the changes of human consciousness and emotional world. In the process of evolution from clan society to slave city-state, originally scattered tribes gathered in the city-state, small families gradually formed, individual consciousness strengthened, and collective consciousness weakened, and people's emotional world became richer. As a result, the epic poems that used to focus on expressing collective consciousness gradually declined, and lyric poems suitable for expressing personal feelings became popular.

The lyrics come from folk songs and are sung with music. There are many genres of lyric poetry, including two-pipe songs (or lamentations), Qin Ge and satirical poems, among which Qin Ge achieved the greatest success. Qin Ge is accompanied by a harp, which can be divided into solo and chorus. The representative of solo lyric poetry is Sappho (about 6 12-? ) and Anacreon (former 570-? ), the representative of chorus lyrics is Pinda (5 18-442 or 438). The poetess Sappho is the most famous poet in ancient Greek lyric poetry.

She wrote nine volumes of poems, but few of them have been handed down. Most of her poems are love poems expressing personal feelings, praising the pain and joy of love, as well as the lofty maternal love and remembering the friendship of friends; The language is simple and natural, with sincere feelings and strong musicality. Plato called Sappho "the tenth goddess of literature and art".

Anacreon's poems often praise the joy of life, nature and love, and win with freshness, beauty and completeness in form. This kind of poem was later called "Anacreon style". Pindar's poems mainly praise God, describe sports competitions, and especially praise the winners of the Olympic Movement. Their style is solemn and concise, with lofty beauty, which has a great influence on the classical literature of later generations17th century.