Said by Plutarch to be the first to utilize the Mixylodian mode, this author was depicted by Ezra Pound as the inventor of the barbitos.
According to Dionysus of Halicarnassus, this author's poetry was the best example of "smooth composition." Said by Plutarch to be the first to utilize the Mixylodian mode, this author was depicted by Ezra Pound as the inventor of the barbitos. One of this poet's fragments describes Artemis as pitiable because "love which loosens the limbs never visits her," while another, appearing on an amphoric vase attributed to Euphronius, states, "I suffer, I desire." The contemporary of Alcaeus, this poet was praised in Plato's Phaedrus as the tenth muse. FTP, identify this author of the fragment "Anactoria" and "Hymn to Aphrodite," who supposedly jumped to death from the Leucadian rock because of unrequited love for Phaon, and lived on Lesbos.
According to Dionysus of Halicarnassus, this author's poetry was the best example of "smooth composition."
{Sappho}