CORINNA  , surnamed " the

Fly," a Greek poetess, born at ,Tanagra in Boeotia, flourished about 500 B.C . She is chiefly known as the instructress and rival of Pindar, over whom she gained the. victory in five poetical contests . According to Pausanias (ix . 22 . 3), her success was chiefly due to her beauty and her use of the local Boeotian dialect . The extant fragments of her poems, dealing chiefly with mythological subjects, such as the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, will be found in Bergk's Poetae Lyrici Graeci . Some considerable remains of two poems on a 2nd-century papyrus (Berliner Klassikertexte, v., 1907) have also been attributed to Corinna (W . H . D . Rouse's Year's Work in Classical Studies, 1907; J . M . Edmonds, New Brags. of .

. . and Corinna, 1910) .