Erinna (lived 4th or 3rd century BC)

Greek poet who probably lived on the island of Telos and died at the age of 19. Three epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the Palatine Anthology. Erinna was most famous for her ‘Distaff’, a hexameter poem written in a mixture of Aeolic and Doric dialects; only a few of its 300 lines are extant.