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Corinna

1. (historical) An ancient Greek poetess.
   • 1816, Pindar, article in Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 559,

     During this period he became acquainted with the poetess Corinna, who was likewiſe a ſtudent under Myrtis, and, Pauſanias ſays, was one of the moſt beautiful women of her time.

   • 1999, David Mulroy (editor), Early Greek Lyric Poetry, page 167,

     The most renowned poetess of ancient Greece, after Sappho, was Corinna, who came from a town in Boeotia named Tanagra.

   • 2005, David H. J. Larmour, 2: Corinna's Poetic Metis and the Epinikian Tradition, Ellen Greene (editor), Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome, page 25,

     […] it may not be going too far, in other words, to characterize Corinna's poetry as significantly "woman-identified," to use Rayor's term.

2. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1601, Thomas Campion, When to Her Lute Corinna Sings, A Book of Ayres, 2006, Jay Parini (editor), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, page 614,

     When to her lute Corinna sings, / Her voice revives the leaden strings,

関連する語

• Cora
• Corina
• Corinne

アナグラム

• Cronian, Norican