If she was so damn great, somebody should have taken the time to write all of her crap down someplace other than a mummy.
They did! The Library of Alexandria had her full collection of works, but the Library was destroyed-first in a fire set during (if a remember right) Octavius' campaign to become emperor of Rome. The rest was destroyed when Rome fell, and Egypt was taken over by early Christians, and then by Muslims, neither of whom really cared about preserving pagan works of antiquity.
There are no surviving poems of Plato reputed to be as great or greater poet as philosopher. Poetry was to be sung in public in Lesbos' day. Writing was not yet as significant as later. It is only by good luck that we have most of Aristotle.
Who knows what was lost in the Great Library of Alexandria.
She was one of the most revered poets of the Classical world. Her poems, like all of the famous poems of the period, were read and usually memorized by the educated Greeks and Romans. However, after the Empire became Christian, the monks who copied texts decided that hers were too immoral and they destroyed basically all of them. That's why, if we can find her works, we find them reused in another function or in garbage heaps in Egypt.
--If she was so damn great, somebody should have taken the time to write all of her crap down someplace other than a mummy.--
Sophocles only had seven surviving plays. Every year when he entered the drama competions in Athens, he had to have 3 tragedies and a satyr play to enter. He wrote at least 118 plays, and all we have left are 7.
We are lucky to have much of any of this left. With periods where large numbers of people were illiterate, and the tendency to recycle (paper gets reused to do things with...wrap stuff, make papermache, start fires, and other things, even today), and the destruction of libraries, the near loss of literacy in western Europe and a distaste for classical literature that a lot of Europe developed after 500, and centuries of civl upheaval, it's a wonder any of it survived.
All the works of the ancient Greeks would have been lost had it not been for Islamic scholars. That is about the only positive thing to come from that religion.