What is "erinna"

Erinna (; ) was a Greek poet, a contemporary and friend of Sappho, a native of Rhodes or the adjacent island of Telos or even possibly Tenos, who flourished about 600 BC (however, according to Eusebius, she was well known in 352 BC). Her best-known poem was the Distaff ( Greek ), written in a mixture of Aeolic and Doric Greek and consisting of 300 dactylic hexameter lines, of which only four were extant until 1928. Three epigrams ascribed to her in the Palatine anthology probably belong to a later date, though some debate on the first epigram exists.

In 1928, a papyrus (PSI 1090) was found that contained 54 fragmentary lines written by her, in six pieces now located in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. The poem is a lament on the death of her friend Baucis , a disciple of Sappho, shortly before her wedding.

Camillo Neri, in an Italian work assessing the surviving fragments and testimonies to her, reconstructs the poet's original name as "Herinna" . She is also sometimes named "Erina".

Erinna may refer to:

• Erinna, the Greek poet
• Erinna (gastropod), a genus of a freshwater snail
• Erinna (plant), a plant genus

Erinna is a genus of air-breathing, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. This genus is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, United States.

Erinna is a genus of perennial herbaceous geophytes in the flowering plant family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Chile, South America. It is included in the tribe Gilliesieae, within the subfamily Allioideae. The genus is monotypic, with a single species, Erinna gilliesioides. It is relatively rare.