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Gorgo

Γοργώ

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

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.