Catalogue of Women

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Catalogue of Women is an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that recounts the genealogies and myths of heroic women and their descendants.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek epic poem
didactic poem
fragmentary literary work
genealogical poem
alternativeTitle Ehoiai
Ἠοῖαι
approximateDate 7th century BC
associatedAuthor Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
surface form: Hesiodic corpus
associatedWork Hesiod's Theogony
surface form: Theogony

Hesiod's Works and Days
surface form: Works and Days
author Hesiod
basedOn Greek mythology
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
describes genealogies linking gods and heroes
marriages between mortal women and gods
origins of heroic lineages
featuresCharacter Alcmene
Atalanta
Clymene
Helen of Troy
Iphimedeia
Mestra
Pandora (daughter of Deucalion)
surface form: Pandora’s descendants

Tyro
function connects heroic genealogies to Panhellenic myth
provides mythic aetiologies for Greek aristocratic lineages
influenced Hellenistic scholarship on genealogy
Roman mythographic tradition
later Greek mythographers
language Ancient Greek
literaryGenre epic poetry
genealogical poetry
mainSubject genealogies of heroic women
heroic age of Greek myth
myths of heroic women and their descendants
modernEdition edited in collections of Hesiodic fragments
narrativeForm catalogue of heroines introduced by the formula ἤ οἵη (ē oie)
originalTitle Catalogue of Women self-linksurface differs
surface form: Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος
periodOfComposition Archaic Greece
preservation papyrus fragments
quotations in later authors
referencedBy Apollodorus of Athens
surface form: Apollodorus

Pausanias
scholia on Pindar
relatedWork Ehoiai
surface form: Megala Ehoiai

Shield of Heracles
scholarlyDebate authenticity and extent of Hesiodic authorship
original structure and number of books
structure organized by families and lineages
survivalStatus fragmentary
traditionalAttribution Hesiod

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Hesiod notableWork Catalogue of Women
Hesiodic Catalogue of Women alsoKnownAs Catalogue of Women
Hesiodic Catalogue of Women titleInGreek Catalogue of Women
this entity surface form: Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος
Works of Hesiod hasPart Catalogue of Women
Ehoiai alternativeTitleOf Catalogue of Women
Ehoiai hasTitle Catalogue of Women
Catalogue of Women originalTitle Catalogue of Women self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος
Melampodia relatedWork Catalogue of Women