... Early Christian writers deliberately removed Sappho from the historical record by destroying her poems because of these links that were unacceptable to them. Her poetry survives only in fragments, except for the one complete poem, usually entitled "The Hymn to Aphrodite." Sappho was appealing to Aphrodite to ... ideas. Women's experience with misogyny throughout the centuries has been severely detrimental to women. Many examples of misogyny can be found in Greek literature. In the Odyssey, Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, while touted as the faithful wife, there is also simultaneously su...

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