Corinna

Corinna (surnamed Muia, 'the fly'), a Greek lyric poetess, a native of Tanagra, in Bœotia, who flourished about 500 B.C. She is said to have instructed Pindar, and to have vanquished him in a poetic contest. Only a few fragments of her work remain, collected by Bergk in his Lyrici Poetæ Græci (Leip. 1843).—Madame de Staël's Corinne was an Italian improvisatrice. For her, see Vernon Lee's Studies of Italy in the 18th Century.