Book review: An empty anthology of the original lesbian Tuesday Book: The Sappho Companion edited by Margaret Reynolds (Chatto & Windus, pounds 25)

The Independent - London | June 20, 2000| | Copyright

WE KNOW sadly little of Sappho: only that she was born into an aristocratic family on the island of Lesbos, in the later part of the seventh century BC. It is probable that she was exiled to Sicily at some time, that she was married and had a daughter called Cleis, and that she presided over some kind of circle or school to which girls were sent to learn the arts, especially poetry and music.

We also know that Sappho had an extraordinarily high reputation. Plato referred to her as "the tenth Muse", and she was an important influence on both Horace and Catullus. We know that there were nine ...

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