Anyte of Tegea

Anyté in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Anyté （Ἀνύτη). A poetess of Tegea, who versified the oracles of Asclepius at Epidaurus about B.C. 300. Some twenty epigrams are all that remain of her works....

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Anyte of Tegea in Wikipedia

Anyte of Tegea (fl. early 3rd century BC) was an Arcadian poet, admired by her contemporaries and later generations for her charming epigrams and epitaphs. Antipater of Thessalonica listed her as one of the nine earthly muses. According to some sources, she was the leader of a school of poetry and literature on Pelopponesus, which also included th...

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