Sappho - Scholars

• A truly legendary figure 


  Joan Dejean
• The tenth muse 


  Plato
• Literary foremother 


  Robin Morgan
• Burning images of feminine desire 


  Ellen Greene
• Sappho's loss of voice threatens to silence her forever 


  O'Higgins
• Transforms the Homeric material for her own purposes 


  Jan Snyder
• Trivial in subject and style 


  Denys Page
• Lovers all show such sympathy as this 


  Longinus
• Sappho sees love as a kind of medical illness 


  Natalie Haynes
• Virginity is a commodity 


  Freeman
• Breaks the silence of women in antiquity 


  Dubois
• She converts the private [...] into the universal 


  Poochigan
• Sappho deeply communicates the female anxiety towards marriage 


  Karanika
• Sappho's homoerotic stance, in the ancient setting, is unremarkable 


  Hall
• A sense of self deprecating humour 


  Marguerite Johnson