+1 on feeling the connection to history.
You will like Sappho(if you haven’t read it already).
You will like Sappho(if you haven’t read it already).
I've read most of this collection of Greek Lyric fragments:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Greek_Lyric.html?id=-aY...
If I recall, there are only a handful of fragments from Sappho that survived. Is this what you were referring to? (Or perhaps I a mistaken and the collection I had only included a few.)