Plutarch, for instance, tells us that Spartan girls under Lycurgan law received the same athletic training as boys and were encouraged in the same emotional expression.[22] Havelock Ellis (without citing his source) mentions Miletus along with Lesbos as favorable to female homosexuality.[23] The _Greek Anthology_ includes some variant epigrams of Nossis from the lower Italian town of Locris, an imitator of Sappho, “one dear to the muses and equal to her.” From the same source we have Asclepiades’ epigram on the beautiful Dorcion who wore boy’s garments and “with the chlamys clearly revealing her naked thigh would flash the fire of love from her eyes,”[24] but this may have been merely a device to attract male attention since the costume described here was that of the _ephebi_—male homosexuals. Elsewhere both Ovid and Appolodorus recount that Caenis of Thessaly, having given herself to Poseidon, begged that in return she be changed into a man.[25] These last two, indicating nothing more specific than transvestism and dissatisfaction with a female role, are not too significant. Equally outside our scope because in the category of erotica, but written and illustrated by women, are lost manuals on erotic techniques of all sorts written respectively by Elephantis and Philaenis. The illustrations from the latter’s work are said to have been widely copied in the bedroom art of contemporary sophisticates.[26] Weigall suggests that two of Sappho’s protégées, like her, celebrated love for women in their verses.[27] One is the Gyrinno to whom she was particularly attached, who died at nineteen. Weigall identifies her fairly plausibly with Erinna, a known poet from the island of Telos near Rhodes, whose work was highly regarded in her day, although only one poem of hers is known by name and all but a few lines are lost. These lines, however, lament the death of a loved girl, Baucis. The other poet, more certainly identified, is Damophyla of Pamphilia, who is known to have stayed with Sappho and to have written love poems and hymns to Artemis in imitation of her great model’s verse. Mythology in Classical Authors