Sappho was an archaic Greek (c. 7th–6th century BC) lyric poet, who is today probably best-known for being, as a viral tumblr post put it, “the OG lesbian”. Around 300 BC her poetry was collected in eight or nine books (perhaps as many as 10,000 lines); today less than a tenth of that survives.
Since the sixteenth century, Sappho’s poems have been translated into English in whole or in part dozens if not hundreds of times. To the modern reader, especially a layperson who has not trained as a classicist, the sheer number of available translations is confusing and intimidating. This site aims to remedy that, reviewing the widely-available translations from the point of view of a lay-reader.