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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Erinna
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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Greek poet, contemporary and friend of Sappho, a native of Rhodes or the adjacent island of Telos, flourished about 600 (according to Eusebius, 350 B.C.). Although she died at the early age of nineteen, her poems were among the most famous of her time and considered to rank with those of Homer. Of her best-known poem, 'HAarc&Trl (the Distaff), written in a mixture of Aeolic and Doric, which contained 300 hexameter lines, only 4 lines are now extant. Three epigrams in the Palatine anthology, also ascribed to her, probably belong to a later date.
The fragments have been edited (with those of Alcaeus) by J. Pellegrino (1894).
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Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Erinna'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/erinna.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Erinna'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/erinna.html. 1910.
