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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.
Greek Original:
*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.
References:
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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Catharine Roth on 31 August 2001@12:01:30.
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Headword: *kori/nna
Adler number: kappa,2088
Translated headword: Korinna, Corinna
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Of Thespiai, lyric poetess; but some have said [that she was] from Corinth. [She wrote] lyric nomes.
Greek Original:
*kori/nna *qespi/a, lurikh/: oi( de\ *korinqi/an ei)rh/kasi. no/mous lurikou/s.
Notes:
cf. kappa 2087 (with references there) and kappa 2089.
Similarly in Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Thespeia (a variant for Thespiai: theta 276).
Keywords: biography; geography; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 January 2001@11:21:46.
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David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 31 August 2001@09:12:26.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 11 March 2013@10:31:12.
Headword: *kori/nna
Adler number: kappa,2089
Translated headword: Korinna, Corinna
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A younger [Corinna], Theban, lyric poetess, who was also called Muia ["Fly"].
Greek Original:
*kori/nna newte/ra, *qhbai/a, lurikh/, h( kai\ *mui=a klhqei=sa.
Note:
Despite "younger," this seems to be the same Corinna as kappa 2087 (q.v. for references and links), kappa 2088, and mu 1361.
Keywords: biography; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 January 2001@11:23:20.
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David Whitehead on 31 August 2001@09:13:39.
Catharine Roth (cosmetic) on 21 October 2003@01:17:28.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 11 March 2013@10:33:22.
Headword: *mui=a
Adler number: mu,1361
Translated headword: Muia, Fly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
From Thespiae,[1] lyric poetess. [She wrote] songs arranged for the lyre.
Greek Original:
*mui=a, *qespiakh/, lurikh/. me/lh pro\s lu/ran a(rmo/zonta.
Notes:
Muia was a nickname for Corinna: see kappa 2087 (with references and links), kappa 2088, kappa 2089.
For this name cf. mu 1362, mu 1363.
[1] In Boeotia (central Greece).
Keywords: biography; geography; meter and music; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 March 2002@21:40:51.
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David Whitehead (added note) on 19 March 2002@02:43:14.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; another keyword; tweaking) on 28 May 2013@06:57:07.
Headword: *mui=a
Adler number: mu,1362
Translated headword: Muia, Fly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A Spartan woman, a female poet. [She wrote] hymns to Apollo and Artemis.
Greek Original:
*mui=a, *spartia/tis, poih/tria. u(/mnous ei)s *)apo/llwna kai\ *)/artemin.
Note:
Poralla/Bradford, A Prosopography of Lacedaemonians no.42. Clement of Alexandria mentions a poetess Myia (along with Corinna, Telesilla, and Sappho) at Stromata 4.19.122. For the name cf. mu 1361 and mu 1363.
Keywords: biography; geography; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 September 2001@07:02:56.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetic) on 18 March 2002@21:37:27.
David Whitehead on 24 June 2004@08:55:12.
Catharine Roth (augmented note with information provided by Andres Rodriguez Cumplido) on 7 September 2004@15:24:17.
David Whitehead (typo) on 8 September 2004@04:03:20.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 May 2013@06:57:53.
Headword: *pi/ndaros
Adler number: pi,1617
Translated headword: Pindar
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Of Thebes, son of Skopelinos, but according to some [son] of Daiphantes -- which is more likely true: for the son of Skopelinos is more obscure and a kinsman of Pindar.[1] Some also have recorded that he is [the son] of Pagonides. He was a pupil of the woman Myrtis.[2] He was born in the 65th Olympiad and was 40 years old at the time of Xerxes' invasion.[3] He had a brother named Erotion and a son Diophantos, as well as daughters Eumetis and Protomache. The end of his life happened as he had prayed: for when he had asked that the best gift in life should be given to him, at once he died in the theater, leaning on the knees of his beloved Theoxenos, at 55 years of age.[4] He wrote 17 books in the Doric dialect as follows: Olympian Victory Odes, Pythian Victory Odes, Prosodia, Virgins' Songs, Coronation Songs, Bacchic Songs, Songs for Apollo of the Laurel, Paeans, Hyporchemes, Hymns, Dithyrambs, Drinking Songs, Encomia, Laments, 17 tragic dramas, epigrams in epic meter and praises in prose for the Greeks, and very many other works.
Greek Original:
*pi/ndaros, *qhbw=n, *skopeli/nou ui(o/s, kata\ de/ tinas *dai+fa/ntou: o(\ kai\ ma=llon a)lhqe/s: o( ga\r *skopeli/nou e)sti\n a)fane/steros kai\ prosgenh\s *pinda/rou. tine\s de\ kai\ *pagwni/dou i(sto/rhsan au)to/n. maqhth\s de\ *murti/dos gunaiko/s, gegonw\s kata\ th\n ce# o)lumpia/da kai\ kata\ th\n *ce/rcou stratei/an w)\n e)tw=n m#. kai\ a)delfo\s me\n h)=n au)tw=| o)/noma *)erwti/wn kai\ ui(o\s *dio/fantos, qugate/res de\ *eu)/mhtis kai\ *prwtoma/xh. kai\ sune/bh au)tw=| tou= bi/ou teleuth\ kat' eu)xa/s: ai)th/santi ga\r to\ ka/lliston au)tw=| doqh=nai tw=n e)n tw=| bi/w| a)qro/on au)to\n a)poqanei=n e)n qea/trw|, a)nakeklime/non ei)s ta\ tou= e)rwme/nou *qeoce/nou au)tou= go/nata, e)tw=n ne#. e)/graye de\ e)n bibli/ois iz# *dwri/di diale/ktw| tau=ta: *)olumpioni/kas, *puqioni/kas, *proso/dia, *parqe/nia, *)enqronismou/s, *bakxika/, *dafnhforika/, *paia=nas, *(uporxh/mata, *(/umnous, *diqura/mbous, *skolia/, *)egkw/mia, *qrh/nous, dra/mata tragika\ iz#, e)pigra/mmata e)pika\ kai\ kataloga/dhn paraine/seis toi=s *(/ellhsi, kai\ a)/lla plei=sta.
Notes:
See generally C. Carey in OCD4 s.v.; see also pi 1619.
[1] cf. pi 1618, and the discussion in M.R. Lefkowitz, The Lives of Greek Poets (1981) 62.
[2] See kappa 2087 (Corinna).
[3] These two dating criteria concur: the 65th Olympiad was 520-517, and Xerxes' invasion of Greece occurred in 481-479.
[4] So the transmitted numeral, but it is too low (Pythian 8 is datable to c.446); Adler's notes Bernhardy's emendation to '75' and Rohde's to '85'.
Keywords: athletics; biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; gender and sexuality; geography; military affairs; meter and music; poetry; religion; tragedy; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 January 2002@22:54:23.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 13 October 2011@08:01:37.
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Catharine Roth (deleted link) on 7 July 2014@23:50:03.
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