A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Corinna, or Crinna

4120228A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Corinna, or Crinna

CORINNA, or CRINNA,

Of the Isle of Telos, lived about B. C. 610. She wrote a fine poem in the Doric language, consisting of three hundred verses. Her style is said to have resembled that of Homer. She died at the age of nineteen.