Sappho of Lesbos: Great Sluts of History

via Wikimedia Commons,
from a fresco in Herculaneum
Love that she’s using a stylus & wax tablets!

Her lyrics were epic, intimate, erotic, and timeless. Even over two thousand years later, even in fragmented form, Sappho’s poetry sings to the heart.

We shall enjoy it

As for him who finds
fault, may silliness
and sorry take him!
(Mary Barnard translation)