Corinna - the lyric poetess of ancient Greece , who lived around the V century BC. er , nicknamed Μυ ,α, that is, the "fly", originally from Tanagra in Boeotia .
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She lived in Thebes for a long time, which is why she is sometimes called Theban. They claim that she won the poetic competition of the famous Pindar , according to some versions, five times in a row, but they usually believe that she was his mentor.
Few excerpts of her poems written in the aeolian dialect, published by Bergk in Poetes lyrici graeci ( 1882 ), have been preserved.
Here are examples of the poetry of Corinna in Russian translations:
Daughters Asopa [1]
Moose of fialkouvenchanny
Dar tell - songs
To praise the immortals.
About that time, like Zeus the father,
Good giver, chose one
Asopid-Aegina: term
She will come - will be happy
On the ways of the thunderer.
- (translation by I. Golosovkera)
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I am Mirtida
I put in reproach ringing:
Argue for a prize with her Pindar -
Was there any meaning to woman?
- (translation by V. Veresaev)
Notes
- ↑ Asop - god of the river Asop, son of the Ocean, father of 20 daughters. The names of some of them were worn by the Boeotian cities.