Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

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ancient Greek epic poem didactic epic fragmentary literary work genealogical poem

The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women is an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that recounts the genealogies and heroic myths of mortal women who bore children to gods and heroes.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women (fragmentary)	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek epic poem ⓘ didactic epic ⓘ fragmentary literary work ⓘ genealogical poem ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Catalogue of Women ⓘ Ehoiai ⓘ
author	Hesiod ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
fieldOfStudy	Greek mythology ⓘ Greek philology ⓘ classics ⓘ
focusesOn	mortal women who bore children to gods and heroes ⓘ
genre	epic poetry ⓘ mythological genealogy ⓘ
includesCharacter	Alcmene ⓘ Europa ⓘ Helen of Troy ⓘ Leda ⓘ Tyro ⓘ
includesMyth	genealogy of the Heracleidae ⓘ genealogy of the heroes of the Trojan War ⓘ
influenced	Hellenistic scholarship on genealogy ⓘ later Greek mythographical tradition ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryForm	hexameter catalogue ⓘ
literaryPurpose	to organize heroic myth through female descent lines ⓘ
meter	dactylic hexameter ⓘ
narrativeFunction	connects heroic families across the Greek world ⓘ
partOf	Works of Hesiod ⓘ surface form: Hesiodic corpus
preservedBy	papyrus finds from Egypt ⓘ
referencedBy	Apollodorus of Athens ⓘ surface form: Apollodorus Pausanias’ Description of Greece ⓘ surface form: Pausanias scholia on classical authors ⓘ
relatedWork	Shield of Heracles ⓘ Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ surface form: Theogony Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ surface form: Works and Days
scholarlyDebate	authenticity of Hesiodic authorship ⓘ original length and structure of the poem ⓘ
stateOfPreservation	fragmentary ⓘ
structure	series of entries introduced by the formula "or like her" (ἢ οἵη) ⓘ
subject	genealogies of mortal women ⓘ myths of heroic women ⓘ origins of Greek heroic lineages ⓘ unions between gods and mortal women ⓘ
survivesAs	papyrus fragments ⓘ quotations in later authors ⓘ
timeOfComposition	7th century BCE ⓘ Archaic period of Greek literature ⓘ
titleInGreek	Catalogue of Women ⓘ surface form: Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος
traditionalAttribution	Hesiod ⓘ

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Electra → mentionedIn → Hesiodic Catalogue of Women ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women (fragmentary)

Hesiod's Theogony → relatedWork → Hesiodic Catalogue of Women ⓘ