CORINNA, a Greek poetess, born at Tanagra in Bœotia. She is said to have been a contemporary of Pindar, and to have carried away the prize from him five times in the public games at Thebes. Plutarch says that she was the instructor of her antagonist; and Pausanias ascribes her victory to her beauty and the copious use of the familiar Æolic dialect, rather than to her talents. By the Greeks she was esteemed as the first of the nine lyrical muses, and her statues were to be found in almost every part of Greece. She received the popular surname of Myia or the Fly. The fragments of her poetry have been collected by Ursinus, Wolf, and Schneider.