Ehoiai

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Ehoiai is an alternative title for the ancient Greek Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, a fragmentary epic poem that recounts the genealogies and heroic myths of legendary women.

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Ehoiai canonical 2
Megala Ehoiai 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hesiodic poem
ancient Greek epic poem
alternativeTitleOf Catalogue of Women
belongsToTradition Greek epic tradition
culturalContext Archaic Greece
featuresCharacterType mortal women loved by gods
focusesOn female genealogies
mythological women
hasForm hexameter poetry
hasGenre genealogical epic
mythological epic
hasLanguage Ancient Greek
hasMeter dactylic hexameter
hasOpeningFormula ἢ οἵη (ē hoiē)
hasStatus fragmentary
hasSubject genealogies of legendary women
heroic myths
hasTheme founding of heroic lineages
relationships between gods and mortals
hasTitle Catalogue of Women
hasWorkType catalogue poem
influenced Hellenistic scholarship
later Greek mythography
isAttributedTo Hesiod
isPreservedAs fragments
knownFrom later quotations
papyrus fragments
literaryTradition Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
surface form: Hesiodic Catalogue poetry
nameDerivedFrom opening formula ἢ οἵη
narrativeMode catalogue
partOf Works of Hesiod
surface form: Hesiodic corpus
relatedWork Hesiod's Theogony
surface form: Theogony

Hesiod's Works and Days
surface form: Works and Days
timeOfComposition Archaic period of Greek literature
traditionallyAscribedTo Hesiod

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Catalogue of Women relatedWork Ehoiai
this entity surface form: Megala Ehoiai