By now, you have probably seen the name "Corinna" pop up in your sentences. Though there is a famous Greek poet that takes that name, the subject of Ovid's collection of poetry, the Amores is perhaps the most famous Corinna of Latin literature. This work is the fictitious account of the poet's affairs with a high-class married woman named Corinna. It is considered to be one of the most infamous examples of Latin Elegy, of genre of love poetry focused on adulterous affairs with married women. She is first named in lines 9-10 of poem I.5, when Ovid states:

ecce, Corinna venit, tunica velata recincta, candida dividua colla tegente coma,

Or in English,

Behold! Here comes Corinna, covered in an unbelted tunic, Her parted hair covering her fair neck,

Classicists are unsure of the true identity of Corinna, or if she even existed at all. All known poems of this genre use a pseudonym for the poems' subject. Despite the elicit subject of these poems, many of the acts described were actually illegal at the time of writing, with the act of adultery punishable by death. Ovid was later even exiled from Rome, though due to another collection of poetry he wrote, the Ars Amatoria, a manual on the seduction of women.