Lesbos

For over 1,500 years, Sappho's poems were a part of the Greek and Roman literary canon along with Homer, Euripides and all the other famous writers of the past. The nine volumes of poems were read by everyone and admired for their beauty and emotional strength. A person who had not read Sappho was considered a cultural ignorant.
Then came the dark ages, 1,000 years after Christ. The fundamentalist Byzantine church did not like women. They did not like Aphrodite and the old Greek gods. And they certainly did not like homosexual love poems. As a consequence, they burned all Sappho's books along with a long row of other famous Greek and Roman writers' works. She simply disappeared from the face of the black earth.

After 500 years of darkness, the few remains of her work were rediscovered by the renaissance after the knowledge of old Greek had returned to the West. The "modern" movement received Sappho as a reborn Goddess and she returned to her former glory. Today, she is held as one of the finest poets ever in the rank of Shakespeare and Homer. She is still alive in the hearts of all true lovers of poetry.