#anyte

[potnialabyrinthoio95]

The seven most important ancient greek poetesses:

Telesilla of Argos, known for having helped in defending her hometown from a spartan army;

Corinna of Tanagra, known for her focus on Boeotian legends;

Nossis of Epizephyrian Locris, known for her epigrams centered on the lives and world of women;

Sappho of Lesbos, known for her love poetry, both lesbian and heterosexual, and her talent that lead people to call her "The Tenth Muse";

Anyte of Tegea, known for her pastoral poems and epitaphs for pets that became both standard genres in Hellenistic poetry and may have influenced Theocritus;

Moero of Byzantium, known for her epic poem "Mnemosyne" and her epigrams;

Erinna (birthplace unknown); known for "The Distaff", a hexameter poem in what the poetess laments the early death of her friend Baucis shortly after her marriage

Art by Sato Futaba, author of the historical mangas "Utae, Erinna!" and "Anna Komnene"

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[lionofchaeronea]

In Memory of a Hunting-Hound

Anyte of Tegea, Epigram 10 Gow-Page (=Pollux Onomasticon 5.48) Once, indeed, you too perished beside a root-rich thicket, Locris, swiftest of all young dogs who love to bark. Into your leg, nimble though it was, a mottle-throated Viper shot its venom that knows no antidote. ὤλεο δή ποτε καὶ σὺ πολύρριζον παρὰ θάμνον, Λόκρι, φιλοφθόγγων ὠκυτάτη σκυλάκων· τοῖον ἐλαφρίζοντι τεῷ ἐγκάτθετο κώλῳ ἰὸν ἀμείλικτον ποικιλόδειρος ἔχις.

A Limier Briquet Hound, Rosa Bonheur, ca. 1856

[swordofhoney]

“For the cricket (nightingale of the field) and oak- dwelling cicada, Myro made a common grave, the girl weeping a virgin tear, because immovable Hades went away holding her two pets.”

— Anyte, transl. by Diane J. Rayor (Fragment Geoghegan 20, c. 300)

[con-alas-de-angeles]

Her constant pleasure is to watch the sea as it shimmers from the shore.

Anyte, Classical Women Poets: Aphrodite by the Sea

[somepoorsod]

These women with the voices of gods were raised by the Helikon and Macedonian Pieria's peak, on a diet of songs: Praxilla, Moiro, Anyte's poetry (the female Homer); Lesbian Sappho with her fair hair in beautiful tresses; Erinna, glorious Telesilla, and you, Korinna, who sang of Athene's shield when she rushed to war; Nossis with her woman's tongue, and sweet-sounding Myrtis: these are the craftswomen of everflowing verse. Nine Muses on great Olympos, and for each a woman born on Earth: to we mortals, an eternal delight.

Antipater in the Greek Anthology (9.26); my translation

τάσδε θεογλώσσους Ἑλικὼν ἔθρεψε γυναῖκας ὕμνοις, καὶ Μακεδὼν Πιερίας σκόπελος, Πρήξιλλαν, Μοιρώ, Ἀνύτης στόμα, θῆλυν Ὅμηρον, Λεσβιάδων Σαπφὼ κόσμον ἐυπλοκάμων, Ἤρινναν, Τελέσιλλαν ἀγακλέα, καὶ σέ, Κόριννα, θοῦριν Ἀθηναίης ἀσπίδα μελψαμέναν, Νοσσίδα θηλύγλωσσον, ἰδὲ γλυκυαχέα Μύρτιν, πάσας ἀενάων ἐργάτιδας σελίδων. ἐννέα μὲν Μούσας μέγας Οὐρανός, ἐννέα δ᾽ αὐτὰς γαῖα τέκεν, θνατοῖς ἄφθιτον εὐφροσύναν.

[terpsikeraunos]

These four women all appear in the Greek Anthology and reflect the widening of the Greek world in their geographical distribution. Moero was an epic poet, whose son was also a poet. The son went to Alexandria and became part of a quasi-canonical grouping of third century poets too modern to have been included in the proper canons drawn up by their scholarly contemporaries. However, Moero herself spent all her life and wrote all her poetry in Byzantium, so far as we know. Anyte wrote several types of poetry and carried on from Telesilla and Praxilla the tradition of women poets in the Peleponnese. She was a native of Tegea in Arcadia, one of the most rural and conservative areas in Greece, but, because some of her poems refer to the sea, people assume that she travelled out of Arcadia at least as far as the Peloponnesian coast. Nossis was a poet from Locri in southern Italy and represents the importance of the western Greeks in the period just before Rome and Carthage fought over their countryside. Erinna, the most fascinating but in many ways the most mysterious of these poets, seems to have come from the island of Telos near Rhodes, since that is the one of her several traditional birthplaces of which the local dialect best fits the language of her poetry.

Sylvia Barnard, Hellenistic Women Poets