Given your knowledge of women in archaic Greece, are these the kinds of texts that you would have expected a woman to write?
What difference does it make to our understanding of her work that Sappho seems to write for a community of women joined by erotic desire?
Does Sappho speak with any voice of resistance or rebellion?
Compare the figure of Helen in Sappho with Helen in other texts you have read.
Does Sappho speak directly to contemporary, modern women, or is her sensibility difficult for us to recover?
What is Winkler's argument about 'double consciousness'? How useful do you find it for a reading of Sappho?