Description of Greece
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Description of Greece is the only surviving work by the ancient geographer Pausanias.
Illustrated page of a 1485 manuscript of Description of Greece (Laurentian Library collection in Florence)
Corinna
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Corinna or Korinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar, not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this tradit
Corinna of Tanagra, c. 1893, by Frederic Leighton
According to ancient tradition, Corinna was a pupil of Myrtis of Anthedon, with whom she sits in this painting by Ernst Stückelberg.
Corinna: The Lyric Muse, c. 1855, by William Brodie
Ancient marble sculpture of Corinna, possibly a copy of Silanion's bronze mentioned by Tatian