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        Sappho is a Greek poetess from Antiquity who lived in the seventh and sixth centuries BC,<hr>
in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Very famous during Antiquity, her poetic work only survives<hr>
in fragments. She is known for expressing in her writing her attraction to other women,<hr>
hence the term "sapphism" to denote female homosexuality, while the term "lesbian" is derived from Lesbos, the island where she lived.<hr>
        Erinna, or Herinna, is a poetess from ancient Greece. For a long time, it was believed that she<hr>
lived around 600 BC, and that she was a contemporary and friend of Sappho.<hr>
        Plato, born in 428-427 BC and died in 348-347 BC in Athens, is an ancient philosopher of classical Greece, contemporary with Athenian democracy and the sophists, orators, and philosophers, whom he vigorously criticizes.<hr>
        Sapphic verses are eleven-syllable verses or a stanza credited to Sappho.<hr>
        Mercury is the god of trade in Roman mythology. Equated with Greek Hermes, he also becomes the god of thieves, travels, and the messenger of other gods. His name is sometimes equated with poetry.<hr>  
        Apollo is the Greek god of arts, song, music, male beauty, poetry, and light.<hr>
        Minerva is, in Roman mythology, the goddess of lofty thinking, wisdom,<hr>
intelligence, crafts, and those who practice them, as well as war understood from the perspective of strategic reflection and tactical know-how, as opposed to the brutal courage of Mars, god of war.<hr>
        The Muses are, in Greek mythology, the nine daughters of Zeus, father of the gods, and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, who presided over liberal arts: epic poetry,<hr>
history, lyric and erotic poetry, music, tragedy, and song, rhetoric and eloquence, dance, comedy, and astronomy.<hr>
        The name Parnassus originated from a mountain range in Greece. In Greek mythology, this range is, like Delphi, dedicated to Apollo and is considered the mountain of the Muses, the sacred place of poets. Parnassus, becoming the symbolic abode of poets, is ultimately equated with all poets, then with poetry itself.<hr>
        The Fates are, in Roman mythology, the divinities in charge of human destiny from birth to death. They are generally depicted as spinners measuring people's lives and cutting fate.<hr>
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