Sappho's Great Love: Atthis

In the Suda, a Byzantine encyclopedia from the 10th century, we learn, and not reliably, about Sappho that:

She had three companions or friends, Atthis, Telesippa and Megara, through whom she got a bad name because of her shameful friendship with them. Her pupils were Anagora of Miletos, Gongyla of Kolophon and Eunika of Salamis. She wrote nine books of …