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But Sullivan embraced the title. She changed the nameplate on her Eressos home to "To Idolion" (The Little Idol). She began dressing in Grecian tunics, holding salons for exiled lesbian writers and artists, and signing her letters: "Margo Sullivan, Idol of Lesbos." What happened next remains murky. Sullivan vanished from public records during the Axis occupation of Greece in WWII. Some say she hid in the mountains with the Greek resistance, using her idols as rabbit-hunting decoys. Others claim she was arrested by the Nazis for hosting a "decadent Sapphic salon" and spent three years in a prison on Rhodes.

But the academic establishment was furious. The British School at Athens accused Sullivan of "archaeological romanticism." Sir Arthur Evans, the excavator of Knossos, dismissed the idols as "recent fabrications, likely carved by a homesick Irishwoman with too much ouzo and too little supervision." idol of lesbos margo sullivan

The hammer fell in 1928 when a Greek antiquities inspector, Dimitrios Papachatzis, published a report proving that the clay used in the Sullivan Idol was not ancient Lesbian terra cotta, but a type of red clay found only in County Cork, Ireland—Sullivan’s birthplace. But Sullivan embraced the title