The 25 Most Powerful Women in History

Sappho

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Not a Queen nor a warrior, but a poet and a teacher, Sappho was an authoritative figure in the school for women that she governed and an even more powerful influence on the art of writing for future writers. She is credited as one of the first writers to write in the first person and philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle praised her for her work.

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