title: Sappho Leontias
text: # Sappho Leontias
  
  Sappho Leontias (1832–1900) was a Greek writer, feminist, and educationist from Constantinople. She advocated for educational opportunities for Greek women and published Eurydice, together with her sister Emilia, her own journal. She translated Jean Racine's Esther from the French and Aeschylus's The Persians into modern Greek. In 1887, she published a book on home economics, Oikiaki oikonomia pros hrisin ton Parthenagogeion. For many years she was a headmistress for girls' schools in Smyrna and Samos. She became active advocating women's rights, particularly the right to education. She was married to Narlis, a member of the so called Greek Ottoman assembly. They had a daughter called Korinna.
  
  