place
Lesbos
also: Λέσβος, Λέσβιος (adj.)
Sappho's island in the eastern Aegean, home of Mytilene and of the great lyric tradition — 'the singer of Lesbos' (fr. 106) was proverbially beyond compare.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §106 Lesbos
Sappho's island in the eastern Aegean, famous beyond all others for its singers; 'the singer of Lesbos' whom strangers cannot match was taken by the ancients to be Terpander, the island's legendary master of the lyre.