" Some call ships, infantry or horsemen
The greatest beauty earth can offer;
I say it is whatever a person
Most lusts after.
Showing you all will be no trouble:
Helen surpassed all humankind
In looks but left the world's most noble
Husband behind,
Coasting off to Troy where she
Thought nothing of her loving parents
And only child but, led astray...
... and I think of Anaktoria
Far away,...
And I would rather watch her body
Sway, her glistening face flash dalliance
Than Lydian war cars at the ready
And armed battalions. "
― Sappho , Poems and Fragments