Sappho

When you start looking for information about Sappho it is easy to become very confused. Every writer has a different opinion about her. There are a few things that remain undisputed.

  • She was born in Eressos
  • She was born about 620 BCE
  • She wrote poetry

We hope to bring you a more up to date page soon.

In the meantime, you can read one view of Sappho Wikipedia.

There is also a new book:

Sappho A New Translation of the Complete Works

Sappho
A New Translation of the Complete Works

Edited and translated by:
Diane Rayor

Published by:
Cambridge University Press

I wish I was in Molyvos

I can’t think of anything I would rather be doing right now other than sitting outside The Seahorse Hotel on Molyvos harbour with a cold Mythos, or better still a nice chilled glass of white wine, watching the world go by. What is it about this place that tugs at the heartstrings so? There are numerous pretty Greek Islands, and there are are plenty of attractive harbours all around the world, and I have been lucky enough to see quite a lot of both, but this place has a magical quality that truly cannot be matched anywhere else.

Of course, we are not alone, in fact, we are veritable newcomers, visiting for just the last 10 years or so. Many, many more have been coming for decades and countless other Brits, Dutch, Germans and many more nationalities now call Molyvos home.

100 years ago

Greek cruiser Georgios AverofOn the 8th of November 1912, Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis arrived with a squadron of the Royal Hellenic Navy led by the battleship Georgios Averof. It marked the beginning of the liberation of Lesvos.

The battleship went on to serve in two world wars and is now a floating museum in Athens.