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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 ... Hindu lady poet and author; Sulabha Ancient Hindu lady poet and philosopher; Sappho (c. 630 – 570 BCE), Greek poet, ...
Archestratus (Greek Archestratos; fl. 330 BC) poet of Gela or Syracuse; Archilochus (Greek: Ἀρχίλοχος; c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC) poet and mercenary; Arctinus of Miletus epic poet whose reputation is purely legendary, as none of his works survive; traditionally dated between 775 BC and 741 BC; Aristeas, semi-legendary poet and miracle ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Ancient Greek poets. It includes poets that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of ...
Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period , are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey , set in an idealized archaic past today identified as ...
Ancient Greek women poets (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Greek women poets" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Today the women at the festival Are going to kill me for insulting them! [5]This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an ...
Ancient authors most commonly referred to the poem as the Catalogue of Women, or simply the Catalogue, but several alternate titles were also employed. [4] The tenth-century encyclopedia known as the Suda gives an expanded version, the Catalogue of Heroic Women (Γυναικῶν Ἡρωϊνῶν Κατάλογος), and another late source, the twelfth-century Byzantine poet and grammarian ...