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"The Sappho Companion" by Margaret Reynolds

By Laura Miller

Genius? Pervert? Seducer and murderer? Homely bluestocking? Nymphomaniac? Every age has its own version of the woman whose 2,600-year-old verses invented the poetry of love.

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