LESBIANA LESBIANS Woman who only has sexual attraction for other women. The term derives from the poet Safo who had a school for young women on Lesbos, a Greek island in Asia Minor. Safo wrote about 12. 000 lines but the Catholic Church, in 1073, ordered to burn all his writings in Rome and Constantinople by immoral, being able to rescue only about 600 lines. There they were prepared for marriage, teaching them dance, art, poetry, culture, music. Safo encouraged love among them because he was accepted into Greek and Roman culture that, even well-married women, had romances between them. Safo c. 630 to 560 a . C. ) was very famous for her insurmountable lyrics and her prestige was eternal when Brentome in the S. XVI published a book on female romantic poems entitled The Lesbians.
