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Sappho was a female writer, which was not common during Ancient Greek times. How does Sappho express the roles of women during that time in her writing? What evidence does she give in her lyric poems as to the duty or inner life of women?

You are the herdsman of the evening

Hesperus, you herd
homeward whatever
Dawn's light dispersed

You herd sheep--herd
goats--herd children
home to their mothers

Sleep darling

I have a small
daughter called
Cleis, who is

like a golden
flower

I wouldn't
take all Croesus'
kingdom with love
thrown in, for her

We Drink Your Health

We drink your health

Lucky bridegroom!
Now the wedding you
asked for is over

and your wife is the
girl you asked for;
she's a bride who is
charming to look at
with eyes as soft as
honey, and a face

that Love has lighted
with his own beauty.
Aphrodite has surely

outdone herself in
doing honor to you!
To an army wife, in Sardis

Some say a cavalry corps,
some infantry, some, again,
will maintain that the swift ores

of our fleet are the finest
sight on dark earth; but I say
that whatever one loves, is.

This is easily proved: did
not Helen--she who had scanned
the flower of the world's manhood--
choose as first among men one
who laid Troy's honor in ruin?
warped to his will, forgetting

love due her own blood, her own
child, she wandered far with him.
So Anactoria, although you

being far away forget us,
the dear sound of your footsteps
and light glancing in your eyes

would move me more than glitter
of Lydian horse or armored
tread f mainland infantry.

You May Forget But

You may forget but
Let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us

Tonight I've Watched

Tonight I've watched
The moon and then
The Pleiades
Go down
The night is now
Half-gone; youth
Goes, I am
In bed alone.

Don't Ask Me What to Wear

Don't ask me what to wear
I have no embroidered
headband from Sardis to
give you, Cleis, such as
I wore
and my mother
always said that in her
day a purple ribbon
looped in the hair was thought
to be high style indeed

but we were dark:
a girl
whose hair is yellower than
torchlight should wear no
headdress but fresh flowers

*** Please I need this info because i have finals and one of the questions might be this but i know nothing about it because i'm not that good with poetry and it has to be 5-6 sentences long the short answer PLEASE THANK YOU!!***
 
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