Myrtis

(Μύρτις), an Argive, whom, with several others of that and other states, Demosthenes (de Cor. p. 324, ed. Reiske) charged with treachery on the ground of their having misled their fellowcitizens with respect to the danger to be apprehended from the growing power of Philip, and so kept them from combining against him. He charges them also with having done so from corrupt motives. Polybius (17.14) exonerates them from the charge of treachery. [C.P.M]

(Μύρτις), a lyric poetess, a native of Anthedon. She was reported to have been the instructress of Pindar, and to have contended with him for the palm of superiority. This is alluded to in an extant fragment of Corinna. (Bergk's Poetae Lyrici Graeci, p. 815.) There were statues in honour of her in various parts of Greece. She was also reckoned amongst the nine lyric Muses. (Anthol. Pal. 9.26; Suidas s. vv. Πινδασος, Κόριννα; Tatian. Orat. ad Graec. 52; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 133; Bode, Gesch. der Hellen. Diditkunst, vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 112.) [C.P.M]

(Μύρτις). A lyric poetess of Anthedon, in Boeotia, who is said to have been the teacher of Pindar, to which there is an allusion in an extant fragment of Corinna (Anthol. Pal. ix. 26). See Pindarus.