The Greek Poetry Ring. The inscription is paraphrased: ‘Nothing is as sweet as love, no treasure more precious, even honey is bitter in comparison’. So says Nossis. Cast in sterling silver with the ancient lost wax process. Available as a ring or earrings in oxidized sterling silver or plated in heavy non-tarnish 18k gold or as a bracelet (see other listing).

Nossis lived and wrote poetry at Locri, a Greek colony (and now an Ancient Greek settlement) that founded 700 years before Christ. She lived around the 3rd century before Christ. Locri cultivated and sent wheat back to the Greek city states and was part of what the ancient Romans called ‘Magna Graecia’ (Greater Greece) and what is now the Italian region of Calabria . At Locri in particular there was a religious sanctuary and a rich cultural activity.

Her poetry is found in fragments of ancient texts that found their way through the dark ages thanks to being recorded and quoted by other authors and despite many important ancient libraries being destroyed.

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