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 and true is true and true is true and true is true and true is true and true is true .
hypothesis: The Chinese polymath Pan Chao poked fun at the female condition .