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Sappho Leontias

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Sappho Leontias (Greek: Σαπφώ Λεοντιάς) ( Constantinople, 1830 or Moutoullas, 1832 – Constantinople, 1900) was a Cypriot writer, feminist, and educator.

Early life and education

Sappho was born as Sappho Clerides (Σαπφώ Κληρίδη) in 1830 Constantinople or according to other accounts in 1832 in Moutoullas village, in Nicosia district. Leontias was her literary nickname.[1][2] Her father was Leontios Clerides (Λεόντιος Κληρίδης) from Marathasa, he was a well known teacher and Hellenist.[2] Leontios was possibly the headmaster of the Greek School of Nicosia (Ελληνικής Σχολής Λευκωσίας) between 1840 and 1845.[1] Sappho was educated by him and later founded with him a number of schools in Cyprus and in Leros.[1][3] Her mother was Sophia Clerides (Σοφία Κληρίδη) and her sister Emilia Leontias-Kteni (Αιμίλια Λεοντιάς-Κτενή).[2]

Career

She taught in Nicosia schools for 7 years and then at Morphou. In 1854 she went to Samos where she founded a girls school and taught for 3 years. For the next 3 years she taught at Aronis girls school (παρθεναγωγείο Αρώνη) in Smyrna and then she went back to Samos where she was the headmistress of a school for 4 years. Then she went back to Smyrna and taught for many years at the girl school of Agia Fotini, where one of her pupils was the also Cypriot and later educator and feminist Polyxeni Loizias. Finally, she settled in Constantinople where she taught at the Palladion girls school (παρθεναγωγείο Παλλάδιον).[1][4] Where among her students was Alexandra Papadopoulou.[5]

Ιn Constantinople she published Eurydice (1870-1873), together with her sister Emilia Leontias, the first Greek literally journal that was directed by a woman. In the journal she published a large number of her own work.[1][6][3] In her literrary work she published mostly romantic poetry with subjects ispired from nature, the motherland and religion. She also wrote short stories, articles, studies and various school textbooks.[1] She translated Jean Racine's from the French and Homer as well as Aeschylus's The Persians into modern Greek.[1][7] In 1887, she published a book on home economics, Oikiaki oikonomia pros hrisin ton Parthenagogeion.[7] She published only a small part of her work in a book in Constantinople in 1899, entitled Ὁ  Ἀνήρ καί ἡ Γυνή.[1]

She advocated for educational opportunities for Greek women[8][9] She became active advocating women's rights, particularly the right to education.[5]

Personal life

She was married to Narlis, a member of the so called Greek Ottoman assembly. They had a daughter called Korinna who married the doctor D. Logiades (Δ. Λογιάδης).

Publications

Publications about Leontias

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Polignosi. "Λεοντιάς Σαπφώ". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  2. ^ a b c Christodoulidou, Louisa (2015-03-01). "Sappho Léondias (1830-1900)". Cahiers balkaniques (in French) (Hors-série). doi:10.4000/ceb.5902. ISSN 0290-7402.
  3. ^ a b Dalakoura, Katerina (2015-05-04). "Between East and West: Sappho Leontias (1830–1900) and her Educational Theory". Paedagogica Historica. 51 (3): 298–318. doi:10.1080/00309230.2014.929593. ISSN 0030-9230.
  4. ^ The International Dictionary of Women's Biography. Continuum. 1982. p. 279. ISBN 0-8264-0192-9.
  5. ^ a b Tamboukou, Maria (2004). "Tracing heterotopias: writing women educators in Greece". Gender and Education. 16 (2): 187–207. doi:10.1080/09540250310001690573. ISSN 0954-0253.
  6. ^ Olsen, Kristin (1994). Chronology of Women's History. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6. sappho leontias.
  7. ^ a b Tzanakē, Dēmētra (2009). Women and nationalism in the making of modern Greece: the founding of the kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 70, 82. ISBN 978-0-230-54546-5.
  8. ^ Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey: Encounters with Europe, 1850 -1950. I.B.Tauris. 2007. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84511-289-9.
  9. ^ Rappaport, Helen (2001). Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. ABC-CLIO. p. 529. ISBN 978-1-57607-101-4.


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