A formação das jovens aristocratas em Lesbos: um estudo sobre a educação feminina no Período Arcaico por meio da análise dos fragmentos de Safo de Lesbos

Abstract

This dissertation has as its theme the analysis of young aristocrats’ education on the Island of Lesbos, using as main source the fragments of Sappho’s poetry. Our objectives in analyzing this theme are to understand how female education took place, in a local área – the island in Asia Minor, and expand our understanding of daily lives in the Arcaic Period, beyond Continental Greece. We also aimed to investigate the ritualistic practices portrayed by Sappho of Lesbos and how this practic was important in the formation of young aristocrats. For this purpose we will analyze the fragments of Sappho’s poetry, as well as other works produced in Greek Antiquity that offer us information on what the female experience was like in the period. The fragments of Sappho’s poetry constitute an important source for the analysis of the daily lives of young women on the Island of Lesbos during the Archaic Period, so that we affirm that their study is as important as the developed on other Greek works, generally attentive and produced by men.