Aegimius (fragmentary poem)
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Aegimius is a fragmentary ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that survives only in scattered quotations and is known for its mythological and genealogical content.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aegimius (fragmentary poem) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7105218 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aegimius (fragmentary poem) Context triple: [Myrmidons, mentionedIn, Aegimius (fragmentary poem)]
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Hymns of Callimachus
Hymns of Callimachus is a celebrated collection of learned, stylistically refined religious poems by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, dedicated to various Greek deities.
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B.
Book of Odes
The Book of Odes is one of the oldest and most revered classics of Chinese literature, comprising a canonical anthology of ancient poems and songs traditionally attributed to Confucius.
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C.
Heroides
Heroides is a collection of elegiac epistolary poems by the Roman poet Ovid, presented as fictional letters written by mythological heroines to their absent lovers.
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D.
Statius' Thebaid
Statius' Thebaid is a 1st-century Latin epic poem that retells the tragic conflict between the sons of Oedipus and the war of the Seven against Thebes.
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E.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aegimius (fragmentary poem) Target entity description: Aegimius is a fragmentary ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that survives only in scattered quotations and is known for its mythological and genealogical content.
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A.
Hymns of Callimachus
Hymns of Callimachus is a celebrated collection of learned, stylistically refined religious poems by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, dedicated to various Greek deities.
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B.
Book of Odes
The Book of Odes is one of the oldest and most revered classics of Chinese literature, comprising a canonical anthology of ancient poems and songs traditionally attributed to Confucius.
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C.
Heroides
Heroides is a collection of elegiac epistolary poems by the Roman poet Ovid, presented as fictional letters written by mythological heroines to their absent lovers.
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D.
Statius' Thebaid
Statius' Thebaid is a 1st-century Latin epic poem that retells the tragic conflict between the sons of Oedipus and the war of the Seven against Thebes.
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E.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a didactic poem by the Roman poet Horace that offers influential guidance on the art and principles of poetic composition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek epic poem
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fragmentary literary work ⓘ |
| associatedMythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| associatedMyths |
genealogies of Greek heroes
ⓘ
myths of Heracles ⓘ myths of the Dorians ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Dorians ⓘ |
| attributionStatus | traditional ⓘ |
| authorshipCertainty | uncertain ⓘ |
| contentFocus |
genealogy
ⓘ
mythology ⓘ |
| culturalContext | ancient Greek epic tradition ⓘ |
| extantLength | only fragments ⓘ |
| genre |
epic poetry
ⓘ
genealogical poetry ⓘ mythological epic ⓘ |
| hasModernEditions | fragment collections of Hesiod and the Hesiodic corpus ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| laterMedium | written text ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Greek literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Aegimius (mythical Dorian lawgiver) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythologicalFunction |
explaining Dorian origins
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structuring heroic genealogies ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Aegimius (mythical Dorian lawgiver) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | oral performance ⓘ |
| period | Archaic Greek poetry ⓘ |
| quotedBy |
Apollonius of Rhodes
NERFINISHED
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Athenaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ other late antique and Byzantine writers ⓘ scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes NERFINISHED ⓘ scholia on Pindar ⓘ |
| referencedIn | modern scholarship on Hesiod ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Catalogue of Women
NERFINISHED
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Theogony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scholarlyCategory | pseudo-Hesiodic poem ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Greek literary history
ⓘ
classical philology ⓘ mythography ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | fragmentary ⓘ |
| survivesAs |
quotations in later authors
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scattered fragments ⓘ |
| textualForm | hexameter epic ⓘ |
| traditionalAuthor | Hesiod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalCorpus | Hesiodic corpus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transmissionType | indirect tradition ⓘ |
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Subject: Aegimius (fragmentary poem) Description of subject: Aegimius is a fragmentary ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that survives only in scattered quotations and is known for its mythological and genealogical content.
Referenced by (1)
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subject surface form:
Myrmidons