Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Poet

Antipatros of Thessaloniki < Central Macedonia < Greece

• Anyte of Tegea < Arcadia < Peloponnesos < Greece (4th c. BC - 3rd c. BC)
• Corinna of Tanagra < Boeotia < Central Greece < Greece (6th c. BC - 5th c. BC)
• Erinna (4th c. BC)
• Homer (8th c. BC)
• Moero of Byzantium (4th-3rd c. BC)
• Myrtis of Anthedon < Boeotia < Central Greece < Greece (6th c. BC)
• Nine Muses
• Nossis of Lokroi Epizephyrioi < Rhegion < Calabria < Southern Italy < Italy (4th c. BC - 3rd c. BC)
• Praxilla of Sikyon < Corinthia < Peloponnesos < Greece (5th c. BC)
• Sappho of Lesbos < Greece (6th c. BC)
• Telesilla of Argos < Argolis < Peloponnesos < Greece (6th c. BC - 5th c. BC)

• These are the divine-voiced women that Helicon fed with song, Helicon and Macedonian Pieria’s rock: Praxilla; Moero; Anyte, the female Homer; Sappho, glory of the Lesbian women with lovely tresses; Erinna; renowned Telesilla; and thou, Corinna, who didst sing the martial shield of Athena; Nossis, the tender-voiced, and dulcet-toned Myrtis—all crafts women of eternal pages. Great Heaven gave birth to nine Muses, and Earth to these nine, the deathless delight of men.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  W. Paton, 1917, The Greek Anthology. Book 9 (vol. 3), Cambridge: 17

• Ces femmes aux divins accents, l'Hélicon les a nourries de chants, et le rocher macédonien de Piérie: Praxilla, Moiro, l'éloquente Anytê, l'Homère des femmes, Sappho, parure des Lesbiennes aux belles boucles, Érinna, l'illustre Télésilla et toi, Corinne, qui chantas l'impétueux bouclier d'Athêna, Nossis aux accents de femme et Myrtis douce à entendre, qui toutes produisirent des pages éternelles. Le grand Ouranos engendra neuf Muses; neuf aussi, Gaia mit ces femmes au monde, pour les mortels impérissable joie.

  Language

  French

  Source(s)

  P. Waltz, 1957, Anthologie Grecque. Tome VII: Anthologie palatine, Livre IX, Épigrammes 1-358 (vol. 7), Paris: 11-12

• Frauen mit göttlicher Stimme hat Helikon und Makedoniens
  steiler piërischer Fels einstens mit Liedern ernährt:
  Moiro und Anytes Mund, Praxilla und Sappho, Homer in
  Weibesgestalt, die Zier lockiger lesbischer Fraun,
  Telesilla voll Ruhm, Erinna, auch dich, o Korinna,
  die du den kriegrischen Schild Pallas Athenes besangst,
  Nossis, die mädchenhaft sang, und dich, süßtönende Myrtis:
  Schaffnerinnen sie all ewig verbleibender Kunst.
  Hat des Uranos Kraft neun Musen geschaffen, neun Frauen
  gab uns die Erde, der Welt nimmervergehende Lust.

  Language

  German

  Source(s)

  H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. IX-XI (vol. 3), München: 27

• A estas mujeres de divina voz alimentaron con odas
  el Helicón y el promontorio macedonio de Pieria,
  a Praxila, a Moero, a Anite, la Homero femenina,
  a Safo, gloria de las mujeres lesbias de hermosos rizos,
  a Erina, a la famosa Telesila, y a ti, Corina,
  que cantaste el escudo marcial de Atenea,
  a Nosis de femenina voz, y a Mirtis de dulces tonos,
  todas productoras de páginas eternas.
  A nueve musas engendró el gran Urano, pero a estas nueve,
  regocijo inmortal para los mortales, las engendró Gea.

  Language

  Spanish

  Source(s)

  M. Fernández Robbio 2014, Musas y escritoras: el primer canon de la literatura femenina de la Grecia antigua (AP IX 26), Praesentia, 15, 1-9: 5

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