premise: From the poet Sappho , who in the sixth century BC was the first to use the lyric to write subjectively and explore the range of female experience , to the Chinese polymath Pan Chao ( Ban Zhao ) , who flourished around AD 100 as historian , poet , astronomer , mathematician and educationalist , the range is startling .
hypothesis: Sappho was the first atuhor to use lyric to write about the female experience .