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ERINNA , See also:Greek poet, contemporary and friend of See also:Sappho, a native of See also:Rhodes or the adjacent See also:island of Telos, flourished about 600 (according to See also:Eusebius, 350 B.C.) . Although she died at the See also:early See also:age of nineteen, her poems were among the most famous of her See also:time and considered to See also:rank with those of See also:Homer . Of her best-known poem, 'HXaxhrr7 (the See also:Distaff), written in a mixture of Aeolic and Doric, which contained 300 See also:hexameter lines, only 4 lines are now extant . Three epigrams in the See also:Palatine See also:anthology, also ascribed to her, probably belong to a later date . The fragments have been edited (with those of See also:Alcaeus) by J . Pellegrino (1894) . |
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