Contest of Cithaeron and Helicon

[6] Alternatively, A. E. Harvey argues that the anomaly is more likely explained as a copyist's error, with the scribe inserting line breaks in the wrong places.

[11] The surviving part of the poem begins with one of the singers – generally thought to be Cithaeron[12] – concluding his song, which tells the myth of how the titan Rhea hid her youngest child, Zeus, from Cronus.

It is unknown if actual musical contests were judged in this way, or if Corinna's use of this voting system is intended to recall judicial procedure.

[16] Corinna's use of the story of Rhea and the birth of Zeus in the poem is apparently influenced by Hesiod's account of the same myth in Theogony.

[17] There are several verbal echoes of Hesiod in Corinna's version of the story, though she also adds her own innovations – such as the inclusion of the Curetes, which are not mentioned in the Theogony.

[22] The contest poem may have been written for performance at the Daedala, a festival in honour of Hera at Plataea, which was held in part at the summit of Mount Cithaeron.