In her work “Some there are (Who Say that the Fairest thing seen)” Sappho attempts to explain the feelings of young women and the idea of falling in love around the time of ancient Greece. She partly does this with the two halves of her work complementing one another. The first half relating the idea of the young female mind being like that of Helen from the Homer's Iliad. In her work Sappho states that “Helen, once forsaking / her lordly husband, / fled away to Troy—land across the water. / Not the thought of child nor beloved parents was remembered...” (Sappho). The second half relates back to this by saying that the “young brides have hearts that can be persuaded / easily, light things, palpitant to the passion” (Sappho). Now this could
