Erica Jong leads us on a journey back 2,600 years to experience the
adventurous life of history's most famed love poetess, Sappho of
Lesbos. Sappho was seduced at the tender age of 14 by her idol, the
romantic poet Alcaeus. Pregnant and in disgrace, she is forced to
marry a lecherous old sot to keep her out of trouble, but she
instead plots to overthrow her stepfather, the island's cruel
dictator. She loses custody of her baby daughter through her
mother's treachery, and she and her female lover and slave,
Praxinoa, are banished from Lesbos, doomed to roam the islands in
search of her daugh