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  1. Greek lyric poet, friend of the poet Alcaeus
  2. and leader of a female literary coterie at
  3. Mytilene (now Lesvos, hence lesbianism).
  4. Legend says she committed suicide when her
  5. love for the boatman Phaon was unrequited.
  6. Only fragments of her poems have survived.
  7.