A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Γοργώ), a lyric poetess, a contemporary and rival of Sappho, who often attacked her in her

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poems. (Max. Tyr. Diss. 24.9, vol. i. p. 478, ed. Reiske.) On the relations of Sappho to her female contemporaries, see, besides the dissertation just quoted, Müller, Hist. of the Lit. of Anc. Greece, vol. i. p. 177.

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