... 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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