Corinna of Tanagra was a well-known Greek poetess. Her simple style, her great erudition in matters of mythology and her taste for local subjects helped her earn the admiration of many of her contemporaries. It is even said that, in a poetic competition, she advised and won Pindar, one of the most famous poets of ancient Greece.  

Unfortunately, most of her work has not survived to this day and we do not have any complete poems. One of the fragments found alludes to the Muse Terpsichora and the tanagers.  

I. Collective reading of the fragment. Identifying the Muses.  

Fragment 1 (PMG 655)  
 
Terpsichore calls upon me 
to sing good tales 
for the white-robed women of Tanagra, 
and the city delights greatly 
in my clear, beguiling voice.  
for whatever ... great ... 
false ... 
... land of wide dancing-places 
adorning the tales of my ancestors 
with my own [?] ...  
for maidens ... 
... I ... often celebrating Father Cephisus 
with my words, 
often mighty Orion 
and his fifty powerful sons,  
whom, in union with the nymphs 
and lovely Libya he conceived, 
... 
the maiden ... I shall tell ... 
fair to see  
earth whom ... conceived 
... begat ... 

KlincK, Anne L. (2008), "Corinna", in Woman's Songs in Ancient Greece, Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, (retrieved on 28/05/2023) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt8137f.11> 

II. 2. We are musivarians. 
On the board handed out by the teacher, your group has to make a mosaic with the assigned Muse. To do this, you will organize the work as follows: 
1- Cut the plasticine into small tesserae and group them by colour. 
2- Draw the sketch of your Muse on the wooden board. 
3- Paste the tesserae with glue until the mosaic is finished. 
4- Once finished, give it a coat of varnish to make it compact and shiny. 
5- We will gather all the mosaics and imitate the one found in Moncada, to expose ours in the classroom.