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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 147 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORINNA , surnamed " the See also:

Fly," a See also:Greek poetess, See also:born at ,Tanagra in See also:Boeotia, flourished about 500 B.C. She is chiefly known as the instructress and See also:rival of See also:Pindar, over whom she gained the. victory in five poetical contests. According to See also:Pausanias (ix. 22. 3), her success was chiefly due to her beauty and her use of the See also:local Boeotian See also:dialect. The extant fragments of her poems, dealing chiefly with mythological subjects, such as the expedition of the Seven against See also:Thebes, will be found in See also:Bergk's Poetae Lyrici Graeci. Some considerable remains of two poems on a 2nd-See also:century See also:papyrus (Berliner Klassikertexte, v., 1907) have also been attributed to Corinna (W. H. D. Rouse's See also:Year's See also:Work in Classical Studies, 1907; J. M. Edmonds, New Brags. of .

. . and Corinna, 1910).

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