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 longest fragments was found on a papyrus and it tells us about the poetry competition between two characters, Helicon and Cithaeron, whose names correspond to two well-known mountains of Boeotia.  
 
1. Read the text and answer the questions:

 (PMG 654) (a) Col. I

… The Curetes 
reared the goddess’s divine
offspring in a cave, kept secret from
crooked-counselled Cronus, 
when blessed Rhea stole him,

and from the immortals
he received great honour.” These things he sang.
And straightaway the Muses
were bidding the blessed gods to bring their secret voting pebbles 
to gold-shining urns.
And they all stood up together.

And Cithaeron received the majority,
and quickly Hermes proclaimed him,
calling out that he had received 
lovely victory, and with garlands
... the blessed gods were adorning him,
and his heart rejoiced.

But the other, Helicon, overcome
with sore resentment ... 
[took] a smooth rock;
and the mountain ... pitiably ...
he hurled it from on high
into a myriad pieces.

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> 

- What do you think the poem of one of the contenders, with which the fragment begins, was about? 
- Who runs the contest? Who acts as a judge? 
- Who wins the contest?  
- How does the loser react? 
 
2. Do your research. As we have already said, the names of Cithaeron and Helicon correspond to two well-known mountains in Greece, which are related to mythology. The Helicon was the home of the Nine Muses and, there, they had their cave and a consecrated spring. For its part, Cithaeron appears in several mythological stories as, for example, the mountain on which the hero Oedipus was abandoned.   

Search the internet for the suggested Greek mountains and complete the table following the example. All of them are related or are the scene of some known myth. Find out where they are located and mark it on the map approximately.  

Locate them on the map. Only in one case you will not be able to do it. In which case?