Myrtis of Anthedon

In antiquity she was included by the 1st-century BC epigrammatist Antipater of Thessalonica in his canon of nine female poets, and a bronze statue of her was reportedly made by Boïscus, a sculptor about whom nothing more is known.

In the modern world, Myrtis has been represented in artworks by Judy Chicago and Anselm Kiefer, and a poem by Michael Longley.

[6][1][3] Plutarch cites Myrtis, whom he describes as a lyric poet,[7] as the source for the story that explained why women were forbidden to set foot in a sacred grove dedicated to a local hero, Eunostos, in Tanagra.

[8] μέμφομη δὲ κὴ λιγουρὰν Μουρτίδ' ἱώνγ' ὅτι βανὰ φοῦ- σ' ἔβα Πινδάροι πὸτ ἔριν.

[1] Tatian, a 2nd-century AD travelling rhetorician and Christian apologist, said that a bronze statue of Myrtis was made by the sculptor Boïscus, otherwise unknown,[15][1][3] which he saw at the Portico of Pompey in Rome.

[4] In the modern world, an 1897 painting by the Swiss artist Ernst Stückelberg, Myrtis and Corinna with the Potter Agathon, depicts her.