Sappho poem published after 2,600 years

From Reuters:
A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the greatest female poet of ancient Greece, was published Friday for the first time since it was rediscovered last year.
…The 12-line poem, only the fourth to have been recovered, was found on papyrus wrapped around an Egyptian mummy. It was published with an English translation in the Times Literary Supplement.
“She obviously had emotional relationships with women of her circle, quite possibly sexual,” the poem’s translator, Oxford University academic Martin West, told Reuters.
“They seem to have had some sort of society in which they could be in each other’s company quite a lot, rather cut off from men,” he said. “But they were clearly able to have plenty of fun.”

I bet!

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