Triumphant Poetess Rediscovered in Oxyrhynchus Ground Down No More
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Throughout millennia and much, much more
Most females found themselves tied down away
From poetry and art. Each grinding chore
Refused to let the girls and women stray
To epic lines or marble sculptures. Mind
In work was not allowed. A loom as task
Was wide enough for women. Life would bind
Them. Platos would not even thin to ask
About this slavery. Spindles were enough
For hearts like Queen Penelope’s. To weave
And then unweave was woman’s work. This bluff
Was suitable — creatures made to deceive.
Erinna rivalled Homer in her lines:
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