"This was part of Sappho's art, to give herself so completely in lust and sweat and satisfaction, to allow herself to be contented and dependent on her lover. ... She hadn't yet learned that this art was a double-edged blade - one that would cut her again and again. It would lend heat to her passion and poetry, and it would eventually break her." Sappho, the lyric poet whose life and lovers give us our current understanding of the word "Lesbian," was hailed as the Tenth Muse on her island home of Lesvos and all throughout Classical Greece. Her poems of passion and longing were directed at the...