Megalai Ehoiai

The Megalai Ehoiai (Ancient Greek: Μεγάλαι Ἠοῖαι) or Great Ehoiai^{[nb 1]} is a now fragmentary Greek hexameter poem that was popularly, though not universally, attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. Like the more widely read Catalogue of Women, the Megalai Ehoiai was a genealogical poem, structured around the exposition of heroic family trees among which myths concerning some of their members were narrated. It was once though that "Megalai Ehoiai" was simply an alternate title for the Catalogue, but today the vast majority of scholars consider these to be independent poems, though a few have proposed that the Megalai Ehoiai was an expanded edition of the Catalogue.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ The poem is also referred to with alternate Latin transliterations of the title: Megalae Ehoeae or Eoeae; occasionally the Latin translation of Megalai is also found: e.g. Magnae Eoeae.

References

1. ^ D'Alessio 2005.

Bibliography

• Cohen, I.M. (1986), "The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Megalai Ehoiai", Phoenix 40: 127–42, JSTOR 1088507 .
• D'Alessio, G.B. (2005), "The Megalai Ehoiai: A Survey of the Fragments", in Hunter 2005, pp. 176–216 .
• D'Alessio, G.B. (2005c), "review of Hirschberger 2004", BMCR 2005.02.31 .
• Hunter, R. (2005), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions, Cambridge, ISBN 0-521-83684-0 .
• Leo, F. (1894), "Hesiodea", Ausgewählte kleine Schriften, ii, Rome, 1960, pp. 343–63 .