# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erinna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:18:50.035Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erinna"
name: "Erinna"
slug: "erinna"
description: "Erinna was an ancient Greek poet. She is best known for her long poem The Distaff, a 300-line hexameter lament for her childhood friend Baucis, who had died shortly after her marriage. A large fragment of this poem was discovered in 1928 at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Along with The Distaff, three epigrams ascribed to Erinna are known, preserved in the Greek Anthology. Biographical details about Erinna's life are uncertain. She is generally thought to have lived in the first half of the fourth century BC, though some ancient traditions have her as a contemporary of Sappho; Telos is generally considered to be her most likely birthplace, but Tenos, Teos, Rhodes, and Lesbos are all also mentioned by ancient sources as her home."
tagline: "Ancient Greek poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erinna_of_Lesbos_).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-400"
deathDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.51443866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "إرينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna_(segle_VI_aC)"
    title: "Erinna (segle VI aC)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna"
    title: "Erinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%89%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B1"
    title: "Ήριννα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna"
    title: "Erinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erina_de_Telos"
    title: "Erina de Telos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna"
    title: "Erinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna"
    title: "Erinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89rinna"
    title: "Érinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna"
    title: "Erinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna"
    title: "Erinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna_z_Telos"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erina_(poetisa_grega)"
    title: "Erina (poetisa grega)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Эринна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89rinna"
    title: "Érinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna"
    title: "Erinna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ерінна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7_(%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1%DB%81)"
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  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erinna"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump