The chained women stood each day, huddled together in the compound. The sun burned down on them. They were offered no shelter. The strict guards watched them. They looked out for the slightest transgression and punished them if one was detected. One day Chryseis was whipped for looking up towards...
The young men carried Sappho's limp body into the opulent room, its high, brightly decorated ceiling a panoply to fine furnishings, vivid and expensive drapes and a deep, marble-edged bath. She was unconscious from exhaustion. 'Put her near the bath and send my girls in to bathe her. Now go! I wi...