You are going to meet the nine poetesses that belong to what is considered to be the "first feminine literary canon". Antipater of Thessalonica gathered them in an epigram that he supposedly wrote and called them "the nine Muses".
1- Extract from the epigram the name of the ten poetesses and write a list in your notebook.
EPIGRAM / FIRST "CANON" OF FEMININE POETRY
This epigram is not a catalogue of all Greek female writers, because these poetesses were not the only women to write in Ancient Greece. For this reason, the canon assesses and selects from the catalogue. Just like the heavenly muses were raised at the foot of Mount Helicon, the divine inspiration of these poetesses is the cornerstone that the author uses to claim that they were also fed at Pieria, that is, that they were also muses.
These are the divine-voiced women that were fed with songs,
by Helicon and the Macedonian hill of Pieria:
Praxilla, Moero, the mouth of Anyte, the female Homer,
Sappho, glory of the beautiful, curly-haired Lesbian women,
Erinna, renowned Telesilla, and you Corinna,
who sang the military shield of Athena,
female-tonged Nossis, and sweet-sounding Myrtis,
all craftswomen of eternal pages.
Great Ouranos gave birth to nine Muses, and these nine
Gaia bore, deathless delight for mortals.
(AP IX 26)
Fernández Robbio, Matías Sebastián (2014). «Musas y escritoras: el primer canon de la literatura femenina de la Grecia antigua (AP IX 26)», en Praesentia 15, (retrevied on 05/04/2022)
2- Based on the information in the table, find their places of origin in the map.
The authors cited lived between the 7th and 3rd centuries BC. None of them was from Athens, they were from distant regions such as Byzantium in ancient Ionia or Locri in Magna Graecia:
3- Cut out the pictures and stick them in the corresponding place in the map.
4- Look at the timeline and Answer the questions:
a- Who is the only poetess from Classical Greece?
b- Where is she from?
c- Is it far or close to Athens?
d- Is there any poetess from Athens?
e- What do you think is the reason for this?