... have been blind. In any case, he wrote the two most famous pieces of Greek literature, the Iliad and the Odyssey, making him one of the most prestigious writers ever. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos. Legend says she was an ugly prostitute who committed suicide by throwing herself off of a cliff. She wrote nearly five hundred poems, and was ... . Most of her poetry was destroyed, but a few were found in an Egyptian trash site, and later, more were discovered to have been used to stuff a crocodile and wrap a mummy. Sappho did have a group of girls as her students and admirers of her w...

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... to participate successfully in more respectable occupations, such as writing. Many of these women concentrated on those matters that most affected them, devoting themselves to their own sex. For example Sappho, a seventh-century poetess, dedicated many of her love-songs to other woman and girls. In addition, Erinna, a fourth-century poetess, is famous for a poem she wrote in memory of her ... ...

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