Departure from Mytilene into exile
· Mytilene, Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International · file An ancient chronological tradition places Sappho's departure from Mytilene in an exile voyage to Sicily, probably amid elite political conflict on Lesbos. The Parian Marble's precise date is lost; modern reconstructions place the event between 604 and 595 BC. “600 BC” is an approximate rendered date.
