Korinna
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Midwest USA |
| Introduction | I teach classics at a Midwestern university, and this blog is an outlet for my non-academic writing. In ancient Greece, Korinna was a famous poetess from Boeotia whose works have, unfortunately, not survived to the present day. There is a story, although probably spurious, that Korinna defeated Pindar (a poet whose work does survive, and is pretty impressive at that) in five different poetry competitions, at which point Pindar attacked her as "the Boeotian Sow." I have decided to reclaim this insult as Pindar's admission of defeat and consequently a mark of distinction for Korinna. |
| Interests | Classics, Greek literature, Roman literature, poetry, mythology |
| Favorite books | Carol Ann Duffy's "The World's Wife" (poems in the personae of women from myth and history), Will Cuppy's "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody" (humorous biographies of historical figures), Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Alfred Tennyson, Sappho, Aristophanes, Vergil, historical fiction, C. S. Lewis' "Till We Have Faces", Anita Diamant's "The Red Tent", Shan Sa's "Empress" |