Scholars have discussed her likely political connections and have proposed plausible biographical details, but these remain highly speculative. Sappho seems also to have exchanged verses with the poet Alcaeus. Even the names of her family members are inconsistently reported, but she does seem to have had several brothers and to have married and had a daughter named Cleis. Apparently her birthplace was either Eressos or Mytilene, the main city on the island, where she seems to have lived for some time.
She was born probably about 620 BCE to an aristocratic family on the island of Lesbos during a great cultural flowering in the area. Little is known with certainty about the life of Sappho, or Psappha in her native Aeolic dialect.
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