- Moero
-
- See also Lake Mweru
Moero (Μοιρώ) or Myro (Μυρώ) was a poet of the 3rd century BCE from the city of Byzantium.
She was the wife of Andromachus Philologus and the mother (according to other sources, a daughter) of Homerus of Byzantium.
She wrote epic, elegiac, and lyric poetry, but very little has survived. Athenaeus quotes a passage from her epic poem Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη) and two epigrams of hers are included in the Greek Anthology. She also wrote a hymn to Poseidon and a collection of poems called Arai (Ἀραί).
Suidas mentions her under the name Myro, and the Myro mentioned by Eustathios is probably the same person.
References
- William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1870 s.v. Moero
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae
Categories:- 3rd-century BC women
- 3rd-century BC women writers
- 3rd-century BC Greek people
- 3rd-century BC poets
- Ancient Greek women writers
- Ancient Byzantines
- Women poets
- Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology
- Ancient Greek epic poets
- Ancient Greek elegiac poets
- Ancient Greek lyric poets
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
