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516 Sappho (with Diane Rayor)

The History of Literature

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Sappho's Poetic Perspective on Sexuality

Sappho was popular in her own time, but also certainly there's much that's different from now. For example, everyone would have been expected to get married. There's no idea of homo or hetero sexuality. So the sexuality is very different and it matters where and when.

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