(Meletem, ii. pp. 10-17), she was the daughter of Achelodorus
and Procratia. On account of her long residence in Thebes, she was sometimes called a Theban.
She flourished about the beginning of the fifth century B. C., and was a contemporary of
Pindar, whom she is said to have instructed (Plut. de Glor. Athen. iv. p.
348a.), and with whom she strove for a prize at the public games at Thebes. According to
Aelian (Corinnae Carm. p. 56, &c.)
The Aeolic dialect employed by Corinna had many Boeotian peculiarities. (Eustath. ad Od. vol. i. p. 376. 10, ad Il. vol. ii. p. 364. 22,
ed. Lips.; Wolf, l.c.) She appears to have intended her poems chiefly
for Boeotian ears; hence the numerous local references connected with Boeotia to be found in
them. (s. v.
ad Il. vol. i.
p. 215. 2. ed. Lips.; Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. 2.1177.)
Her poems were collected in five books, and were chiefly of a lyrical kind, comprising choral songs, lyrical nomes, parthenia, epigrams, and erotic and heroic poems. The last. however, seem to have been written in a lyrical form. Among them awe find mentioned one entitled
Statues were erected to Corinna in different parts of Greece, and she was ranked as the
first and most distinguished of the nine lyrical Muses. She was surnamed s.v.
Poet. octo
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