Only a few fragments of Sappho's poetry are still extant and no other poetess is known. She is the only female author known. And while there has been the constant debate as to whether or not Homer was one man, a "head bard", who each generation took that name, and several other such theories, the names of many male writers, from ancient Greece, have come down to us through millennia.
Archaeologists, hmm. I think they'd agree with me that women were just as important in that society as men, whether the men were aware of it or not. In a patriarchal society (which this certainly was) we have to look behind the male-centred view ... if we can find any way of doing so.
Tell me, nopardons, did Helen count for anything? It seems to me that her decisions made quite a bit of difference to the course of events in the Trojan War story. Am I wrong there?