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Headword:
*kori/nna
Adler number: kappa,2087
Translated headword: Korinna, Corinna
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Daughter] of Akheloiodoros and Prokratia; from
Thebes or
Tanagra; a pupil of Myrtis; she was nicknamed Muia ["Fly"]. Lyric poetess. She is said to have defeated
Pindar [sc. in competition] five times. She wrote 5 books, both epigrams and lyric nomes.
*kori/nna, *)axelw|odw/rou kai\ *prokrati/as, *qhbai/a h)\ *tanagrai/a, maqh/tria *mu/rtidos: e)pwno/masto de\ *mui=a: lurikh/. e)ni/khse de\ penta/kis w(s lo/gos *pi/ndaron. e)/graye bibli/a e#, kai\ e)pigra/mmata kai\ no/mous lurikou/s.
Notes:
See generally C. Carey in OCD(4) s.v.
Corinna; and cf.
kappa 2088,
kappa 2089,
mu 1361.
Corinna composed choral lyrics in a poetic dialect with Boeotian flavor, which appears accentuated by the Boeotian spelling of the papyrus fragments. The historicity of her encounters with
Pindar (
pi 1617) cannot be verified. No epigrams are extant.
See Perseus Encyclopedia entry at web address 1.
D.L. Page, Poetae Melici Graeci 326ff.
D.D. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry (1967) 103ff., 408ff.
C. Segal in Cambridge History of Classical Literature I.1, 198-200
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 January 2001@11:20:15.
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