Sappho: Love & Life on Lesbos

Sappho is the most controversial writer of the ancient world and the first authentic woman’s voice in western history. Was she the first lesbian, a priestess, prostitute, a stern schoolmistress or an aristocratic lady of leisure as readers over the centuries have variously alleged? The mysterious discovery of a lost papyrus containing the words to songs unheard for seventeen hundred years sends papyrology expert, Margaret Mountford, on a journey to explore the truth about Sappho.