Catalogue of Women
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catalogue-of-women-184-8853087
title:
Catalogue of Women
text:
The Catalogue of Women—also known as the Ehoiai —is a fragmentary Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The "women" of the title were in fact heroines, many of whom lay with gods, bearing the heroes of Greek mythology to both divine and mortal paramours. In contrast with the focus upon narrative in the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, the Catalogue was structured around a vast system of genealogies stemming from these unions and, in M. L. West's appraisal, covered "the whole
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Ancient Greek epic poem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue_of_Women
date created:
2005-05-29T13:07:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T07:02:02Z
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