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Look up: Erinna

  1. Erinna
    (lived 4th or 3rd century BC) Greek poet who probably lived on the island of Telos and died at the age of 19. Three epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the Palatine Anthology. Erinna was most famous for her...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  2. Erinna
    Greek poet of the Aegean island of Telos, known in antiquity for `The Distaff,` a hexameter poem of lament for a friend, written in the local Dorian ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/41

  3. Erinna
    Erinna was a Greek poet. She lived around 600 BC. She is said to have been an intimate friend of Sappho, and died at the age of eighteen. She acquired a high reputation for poetry; her chief work was called Elakate (The Distaff), of which nothing has come down to us. An epitaph or two which are stil...
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  4. Erinna
    `Erinna` (Ἤριννα-->) was a Ancient Greece|Greek poet, a contemporary and friend of Sappho, a native of Rhodes or the adjacent island of Telos or even possibly Tenos, who flourished about 600 BC (according to Eusebius, she was well known in 352 BC). Her best-known poem was the ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna

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