Corinna

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Corinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Boeotia, renowned for her choral poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.

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Label Occurrences
Corinna canonical 3
Korinna 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek poet
lyric poet
woman
associatedPeriod Classical Greece
early Hellenistic period
associatedWith Boeotian mythology
Pindar
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
culture ancient Greek culture
ethnicGroup Greek
fieldOfWork choral lyric composition
floruit 4th century BCE
5th century BCE
gender female
genre choral poetry
lyric poetry
historicity disputed dating in modern scholarship
influenced later Hellenistic views of Boeotian lyric
knownFor choral poetry in the Boeotian dialect
competition with Pindar in later tradition
mythological narrative poems
languageVariant Aeolic Greek
surface form: Boeotian Aeolic
literaryForm choral song
narrative lyric
literaryMovement Greek lyric poetry
metricalPractice Aeolic meters
strophic lyric forms
nameInGreek Κόριννα
nativeLanguage Aeolic Greek
notableWork choral lyrics
occupation poet
placeOfOrigin Tanagra
reception highly esteemed in Boeotia in antiquity
less prominent in later canonical lyric tradition
region Boeotia
sourceOfInformation ancient testimonia
papyrus fragments
style Aeolic lyric
subjectOf ancient biographical traditions
survivingWorks fragments
workTheme genealogical myths
local Boeotian legends
myths of Heracles
myths of the Seven against Thebes
writingLanguage Aeolic Greek

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Aeolic Greek usedBy Corinna
Moon Bloodgood givenName Corinna
this entity surface form: Korinna
Amores hasFictionalBeloved Corinna