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Athenian Red-Figure Hydria. Sappho in female gathering holding her lyre. Sappho (between 630 and 612 BC; † around 570 BC) was an ancient Greek poet. She is considered the most important lyric poet of classical antiquity and has canonical significance. Sappho lived in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in the North Aegean, the cultural center of the 7th century BC. Erotic love plays an important role in her poetry. According to current estimates, only about seven percent of her entire work has survived. Wood engraving based on an ancient Greek vase painting (474-425 BCE) in the National Museum, Athens and the British Museum, London, published in 1895.