LIFE OF SAPPHO

Lueian Loves: If women had a parliament and
law-courts and a share in polities, you would have
been elected general or president, Charicles, and
they would have put up bronze statues in your
honour in the market-place. Indeed, had all the
wisest and cleverest of their own sex been given the
opportunity, they could hardly have proved better
champions of its cause, not even Telesilla, who took
arms against the Spartan nobles and thus caused
Ares to be reckoned at Argos a woman’s God, nor
yet Sappho, the delicious glory of the Lesbians, or
Theano the daughter of the wisdom of Pythagoras.
Nay, Pericles could hardly have made out so good a
case for Aspasia.

The Same On Paid Companions: For ladies make
a great point of having persons of education in their
pay, to attend upon them and accompany them
when they go abroad in their chairs, since there is
nothing on which they pride themselves more than
that it ‘heel be said that they are ladies of ante
and learning and write poems almost as good a
Sappho 's.

Cicero Orations against Terres: The Sappho which
was stolen from the town-hall of Syracuse! that,
I admit. alinost grants you extenuation, Could this
work of Silanion, so perfect. so refined, so finished,
be in fitter hands public or private than those of a
man so refined and cultured as Verres? ... And
how sorely this stolen Sappho was missed is almost
more than words can tell. Not only was the poetess
exquisitely portrayed, but there was a world-famous

(above), is thought to be an indimation that Sappho’s Sicilian
exile was spent at Syracuse

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