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This is John Bachelor, speaking with the author and classicist Daisy Dunn, her book The Missing

Thread, a Women's History of the Ancient World, the very famous poetry of love and the island of Lesbos by Sappho. However, Daisy tells

the story very quickly here of Sappho's jealousy or displeasure with a woman whom one of her brothers bought out of slavery in

Egypt and brought home with him. As Daisy says we'd quite know what the brother and the woman he bought

out of slavery were to each other, probably romance. However, Sappho objected to this woman because she believed that her brother had shown her

favor that was inappropriate.

As I understand it from the author Daisy Dunn, this is class prejudice on the island of Lesbos in the classical Greek world, well before AD, well before the Romans, and Sappho is famous for her poetry and famous for her

sharp personality in other places as well. Sappho the poet and her brother and a woman rescued who wanted to be

remembered. Much more of this later. She did.

I mean with Sappho we only have fragments of her work

had been dug up on these little sections of papyrae

and from Egypt.

But we know that she wrote of this woman.

Dureka, as we might call her,

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