Muses - Nine Earthly

Sappho, Telesilla, Korinna, Antipater, Nossis, Myrtis, Praxilla, Erinna, Moero, and Anyte

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Source • The Women and the Lyre, by Jane McIntosh Snyder. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

An obscure elegiac poet of the first century B.C., Antipater of Thessalonica, wrote a catalogue of the most respected and famous women poets, whom he called the nine earthly muses. The nine were:

• Praxilla
• Moero
• Anyte
• Sappho
• Erinna
• Telesilla
• Korinna
• Nossis
• Myrtis

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