Sappho of Lesbos was the best-known woman writer of the ancient world, though we know her work only in quotations. More images of Sappho: Sappho Image Gallery
Image of Sappho of Lesbos, an artist's conception published in World Noted Women, 1883. Sappho lived and wrote poetry in about 600 BCE.
From a public domain image. Modifications © Jone Johnson Lewis, 2006.