lyric poetry, created to be sung to lyre music--and revolutionised the tradition by writing about her own thoughts and feelings, rather than about what the gods and Muses might be thinking. She was an innovator: among her ground-breaking work was her predilection for writing tender love poems to women--often of elegy and yearning for a departed lover: "Come back to me, Gongyla, here tonight," reads one fragment. "You, my rose, with your Lydian lyre/There hovers forever around you delight:/A beauty desired."
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