★ ERĒMIA · female · the top woman of her age · ~630–570 BCE · Lesbos ★
The lyric poet the ancients called the Tenth Muse — the first individual voice of personal feeling in Western poetry, and the standard against which lyric was measured. One of the generations of women — the foremost of her age, restored to the record — in UD0's ERĒMIA female sub-domain.
The Four Natures
each facet emerges by one of four natures
natural
of the body and the lived age — the woman in her time, against its door
ethereal
of the erased and the nearly-lost — the work destroyed, scattered, or scrubbed from the record
spiritual
of the soul and the voice — the mind that spoke and was, at last, heard
electrical
of the system and the made — the science, the engine, the theorem, the built thing
Her Place in the Line
the age, and the restoration
Her Age
~630–570 BCE · Lesbos
The lyric poet the ancients called the Tenth Muse — the first individual voice of personal feeling in Western poetry, and the standard against which lyric was measured.
The Restoration
top woman of her age
Of nine books of her work, almost all is lost — survived only in fragments and quotations; the canon kept her name and discarded her words.
The Facets
Sappho's work and her place in the record as ACI .agents (2)
A cited history, rendered not invented. Sappho is part of the documented record; her achievements are summarized and no copyrighted text is reproduced — works are named and described, never quoted. She is catalogued here as the foremost woman of her generation in the FEMALE · THE GENERATIONS timeline of UD0's ERĒMIA domain, which restores, age by age, the women the canon left out — beginning with Enheduanna (~2300 BCE), the first author known by name; the named record does not reach further back, so she is the genuine start. Living women are honored elsewhere by citation, not minted here. Each facet is named by its nature.