GREECE 2017 GREEK LYRIC POET SAPPHO SILVER PROOF COIN

GREECE 2017 GREEK LYRIC POET SAPPHO SILVER PROOF COIN

Bank Of Greece
SKU:
3112
€85.00
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Description

GREECE 2018 GREEK LYRIC POET PINDAR SILVER PROOF COIN

Denomination: €10
Diameter: 40 mm
Weight: 34.10 gr
Edge: plain
Material: silver (Ag) 92.5%
Packaging: coin box with certificate of authenticity
Maximum issue: 2,000 pieces
Minting quality: proof
Coin designed by: G. Stamatopoulos

Sappho (c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho wrote lyric poetry and is best known for her poems about love. Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost and survives only in fragmentary form. As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry; three epigrams attributed to her are preserved, but these are in fact Hellenistic imitations. Sappho was a prolific poet, probably composing around 10,000 lines. Her poetry was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, and she was among the canon of nine lyric poets most highly esteemed by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. Today, most of Sappho's poetry is lost, but it is still considered extraordinary, and her works have continued to influence other writers up until the modern day. Beyond her poetry, she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women.