In his concise and penetrating afterword, Powell states that Sappho's society was one ``which allowed her talent scope to develop, a culture which was, to judge by the evidence of her poems, markedly less misogynous and gynophobic than that of many Greek cities.'' Later centuries, however, have found her homoeroticism threatening. Powell ( It Was Fever That Made the World ) has translated all 500-odd verses by the Greek poet Sappho ``that make consecutive sense, however brief, torn, or abruptly interrupted.'' Most of Sappho's writing was lost during later antiquity, but modern archeological discoveries have added much to the body of her work.
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