Corinna

ko-rin'a, a Greek lyric poetess of the first half of the fifth century B. C. She was born at Tanagara, Boeotia, She is said to have instructed Pindar and to have won the victory over him five times in the public poetic contests. According to Pausanius, she was so beautiful that the judges may have been influenced in her favor. Only a few fragments of her poems are extant.