A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Myrtis

by Mary Matilda Betham

MYRTIS.

A Grecian woman, eminent for her poetical talents, who taught Corinna, of Thebes, the art of writing verses. She lived a little before Pindar, and some fragments of her poems may be found with those of Anyta.

L'Advocat's Dict.