Sappho creates a world that affirms love and contrasts with the violence of war, introducing a morality of emotion that elevates the human experience.

It is a world that shuns ostentatious wealth, luxury, and the vanity of appearance.

The delicacy of Sapphic poetry possesses the fragrance of the roses of Pieria, the honeyed song of nightingales, the taste of honey, the glow of the rose-fingered moon, the brightness of youthful girls, the sounds of the sweet songs of the singing birds, soft coverings on the soft cushions, the beautiful young groom resembling a slender branch, and of course, the bittersweet charm of love's unarmed creature.

(Tasoula Karageorgiou, from the preface of the book)