5 Quotes by Korinna

I Korinna am here to sing the courageof heroes and heroines in old myths.To daughters of Tanagra in white robes,I sing. And all the city is delighted with the clean water of my plaintive voice.

Will you sleep forever? There was a time, Korinna, when you were not a loafer.

Although I was her pupil,Even I reproach Myrtisof the crystalline voice.She was a mere woman poet,yet she challenged Pindar.

When he sailed into the harbor his ship became a snorting horse.Hermes ravished the white citywhile the wind like a nightingale sang with his whirling battle axe.

Kithairon sang of cunning Kronosand sacred Rhea who stole her son Zeus,mighty among immortals.Then the Muses asked the gods to puttheir ballot stones in the urn of gold.All stood up and Kithairon wonthe greater part. Hermes shouted loud, at once proclaiming sweet victory.The gods adorned his brow with flowers,and Kithairon rejoiced. But Helikonwas stunned with bitter rage, and torea massive boulder from the mountain.Insanely he shouted and lobbed the rockdown on thousands of mortals below.