Family

• Sweet mother

  Is a poem Sappho addresses to her mother discussing how a crush on a boy is distracting her from her womanly duty of weaving
• Cypris

  is a kletic + propempticon poem where sappho calls on aphrodite to make her brother Charaxos fall out of love with the Egyptian hetaira, Doricha
• Come, Queen Hera

  Is a kletic poem where Sappho calls on Hera to protect Charaxos while he is at sea, like how she protected the sons of Atreus when they were returning from Troy
• the most beautiful sight in the whole world (family theme):

  Sappho talks about how love made Helen so infatuated that she even abandoned her family, her husband the greatest of all men, and her children

  shows how love can even overpower family connections
• I have a beautiful daughter:

  is sappho talking about how much she loves her daughter and how she resembles the sight of golden flowers
• My mother Said:

  Sappho recalls about how her mother spoke to her about the fashions of when she was younger

  How blonde people war garlands of flowers

  And other women wore a purple headband