Sappho

 Very little is known about Sappho: that she was a famous poet in antiquity, the inventor of the "Saphic metre" (Saphic rhythm) and that she may have been a lesbian, hence the name of the island, Lesbos.

In reality, she lived around the 7th century BC, was born into an aristocratic family on the said island, had several siblings, and married a very rich man as a young woman, with whom she had a daughter named Cleis .

Sapho built her "House of the Muses" in the cult of Aphrodite and Eros, a kind of school that encouraged young noblewomen to write.

Plato called her "the tenth muse". It is not known exactly whether she actually invented the Sapphic rhythm or just refined it. Her work has survived to a very small extent. Only a few fragments have come to light, mostly old works dedicated to her and not those written by her.

Three centuries after her death, writers parodied her, propagating the idea that she was a lesbian – a term derived from the name of the island where she lived.

This is the reason that led Pope Gregory burn the few poems that had become known and which, it is said, would have been dedicated to her students.

Concrete evidence in this promiscuous sense does not exist, and historians admit that an injustice may be committed in this sense.

Publius Ovidius says that she would have died young, thrown into the sea, for the love of a man, a young sailor, Phaon.

Other historians claim that, on the contrary, she would have died old, but again, no evidence.

From the scraps of information we have about this woman is that in addition to being a famous poet, she was also one of the first woman teachers in human history.