The Greek poets Straton of Sardis and Sappho of Lesbos both wrote erotic lyric poems. Many erotic poems have survived from ancient Greece and Rome. In the Hebrew Bible, the Song of Songs, found in the last section of the Tanakh, celebrates sexual love, giving 'the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy'. In ancient Sumer, a whole cycle of poems revolved around the erotic lovemaking between the goddess Inanna and her consort Dumuzid the Shepherd. The oldest located love poem is Istanbul 2461, an erotic monologue written by a female speaker directed to king Shu-Sin. Sappho, the tenth Muse, fresco from Pompeii Early periods
