-
around 570 BC.
According to legend, she
killed herself by
leaping from the
Leucadian cliffs due to her
unrequited love for the
ferryman Phaon.
Sappho was a...
- name to the island. This was a site
where criminals were
thrown (hence "
Leucadian trial") in
order to
judge their guilt or
innocence from
their injury at...
- son of Aristophanes.
Photius claims that
Nicostratus leaped from the
Leucadian Rock due to an
unrequited love for a
woman named Tettigidaea (Ancient...
- loss,
according to Justin. By
another account Olympias had
poisoned a
Leucadian damsel named Tigris, to whom her son
Pyrrhus was attached, and was herself...
- of Apollo. The apse
depicts a
scene of the poet
Sappho leaping off the
Leucadian cliffs,
clutching her lyre to her breast,
while Apollo stands beneath...
- Pontus, next to
which he
places the Oretic, and then the Aeneatian, the
Leucadian, the Ambraciotic, and the Peparethian, to
which last he
gives the preference...
-
Chalcidians 400
Fifth coil
Styrians 300?
Eleans -
Potideaeans 300
Fourth coil
Leucadians 400?
Anactorians 400?
Cythnians -
Siphnians -
Third coil
Ambraciots 500...
-
November to
advise and on the way, "in a
landlocked bay
close to the
Leucadian Rock (where
Sappho is
supposed to have
drowned herself)", his ship escaped...
- der
Schweiz [Letters from Switzerland], 1792 Der
Leukadische Fels [The
Leucadian Rock], a play. Leipzig: Göschen, 1792.
Agnes von Lilien. Berlin: J. F...
- "Philaenis the Samian,
daughter of Ocymenes" –
though Athenaeus calls her "
Leucadian". Her mother's name is
sometimes given as Gyllina.
Modern scholars generally...
