>Only approximately 650 lines of Sappho's poetry still

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>Only approximately 650 lines of Sappho's poetry still survive, of which just one poem – the "Ode to Aphrodite" – is complete, and more than half of the original lines survive in around ten more fragments. Many of the surviving fragments of Sappho contain only a single word[60] – for example, fragment 169A is simply a word meaning "wedding gifts",[77] and survives as part of a dictionary of rare words.[78] The two major sources of surviving fragments of Sappho are quotations in other ancient works, from a whole poem to as little as a single word, and fragments of papyrus, many of which were discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.[79] Other fragments survive on other materials, including parchment and potsherds.[61] The oldest surviving fragment of Sappho currently known is the Cologne papyrus which contains the Tithonus poem,[80] dating to the third century BC.[81]
>In antiquity Sappho's poetry was highly admired, and several ancient sources refer to her as the "tenth Muse".[100] The earliest surviving poem to do so is a third-century BC epigram by Dioscorides,[101][102] but poems are preserved in the Greek Anthology by Antipater of Sidon[103][104] and attributed to Plato[105][106] on the same theme. She was sometimes referred to as "The Poetess", just as Homer was "The Poet".[107] The scholars of Alexandria included Sappho in the canon of nine lyric poets.[108] According to Aelian, the Athenian lawmaker and poet Solon asked to be taught a song by Sappho "so that I may learn it and then die".[109] This story may well be apocryphal, especially as Ammianus Marcellinus tells a similar story about Socrates and a song of Stesichorus, but it is indicative of how highly Sappho's poetry was considered in the ancient world.[110]