I. Introduction
2. Audience's self involvement in lyric poetry
3. Influence on surrounding culture
4. Voice of women in ancient Greek culture
2. seen as radical
2. monodic lyric: focus on the individual
2. moderation: #4
2. attitude on life: #7
2. being good: #7
2. caution: #4
2. Sappho's awareness of the function of a poet in her society: # 32
3. presenting the female persona as an erotic object
4. male vs. female lyric poets in pursuit of love objects
b. Sappho: woman as active seeker. Focus on romantic longing.
View of Aphrodite= ally.
b. Similarities between the poetry of Sappho and Homer and Sappho's use of the Homeric epics.
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