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| Reference | Sear 4271 var | Bronze 12mm (1.67 grams) Struck circa 400-200 B.C.
The word comes from the Greek "λύρα" (lyra) and the earliest reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists", written in Linear B syllabic script
It is built on the southeast edge of the island
Strabo says that Sappho was the contemporary of Alcaeus of Mytilene (born ca. 620 BC) and Pittacus (ca. 645 - 570 BC) and according to Athenaeus she was the contemporary of Alyattes of Lydia (ca. 610 - 560 BC)
Taken together, these references make it likely that she was born ca. 620 BC, or a little earlier
Based on this story, scholars have speculated that references to a Doricha may have been found in Sappho's poems
Sappho on an Attic red-figure vase by the Brygos Painter , ca. 470 BC
This is regarded as unhistorical by modern scholars, perhaps invented by the comic poets or originating from a misreading of a first-person reference in a non-biographical poem
There are no references to teaching, students, academies, or tutors in any of Sappho's scant collection of surviving works
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