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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Ancient Greek poets. ... Pages in category "Ancient Greek women poets" The following 20 pages are in this category ...
This list of ancient Greek poets covers poets writing in the ... a semi-mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet. Erinna, female contemporary and ...
Sappho's poetry also influenced other ancient authors. Plato cites Sappho in his Phaedrus, and Socrates' second speech on love in that dialogue appears to echo Sappho's descriptions of the physical effects of desire in fragment 31. [166] Many Hellenistic poets alluded to or adapted Sappho's works. [167] The Locrian poet Nossis was described by ...
Moero (Greek: Μοιρώ) or Myro (Greek: Μυρώ) was a woman poet of the Hellenistic period from the city of Byzantium. She was the wife of Andromachus Philologus and the mother – the Suda says daughter, but this is less likely – of the tragedian Homerus of Byzantium .
Corinna or Korinna (Ancient Greek: Κόριννα, romanized: Korinna) was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar (born c. 518 BC), not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this tradition. When she lived has been the subject of much debate since the early ...
This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, ... Maitreyi Ancient Hindu lady poet and ... (c. 630 – 570 BCE), Greek poet, one of the nine lyric poets; ...
Erinna (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ n ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἤριννα) was an ancient Greek poet. She is best known for her long poem The Distaff, a 300-line hexameter lament for her childhood friend Baucis, who had died shortly after her marriage. A large fragment of this poem was discovered in 1928 at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
Marble bust of Nossis by Francesco Jerace. Nossis (Ancient Greek: Νοσσίς, fl. c. 300 BC) was a Hellenistic poet from Epizephyrian Locris in Magna Graecia.Probably well-educated and from a noble family, Nossis was influenced by and claimed to rival Sappho.