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Megalai Ehoiai

Fragmentary Greek epic poem

Summary

Fragmentary Greek epic poem

NOTOC The Megalai Ehoiai (, ), or Great Ehoiai, is a fragmentary Greek epic poem that was popularly, though not universally, attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. Like the more widely read Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, the Megalai Ehoiai was a genealogical poem structured around the exposition of heroic family trees among which myths concerning many of their members were narrated. At least seventeen fragments of the poem are transmitted by quotations in other ancient authors and two second-century CE papyri, but given the similarities between the Megalai Ehoiai and Catalogue of Women it is possible that some fragments attributed to the Catalogue actually derive from the less popular Hesiodic work. Indeed, most of the scholarly attention devoted to the poem has been concerned with its relation to the Catalogue and whether or not the title "Megalai Ehoiai" in fact referred to a single, independent epic.

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Translations

  • . (The link is to the 1st edition of 1914.) English translation with facing Greek text of all the fragments in except for frr. 251(a) and 259(a).
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  1. Abbreviated ''ME''. On the meaning and significance of the title see [[Megalai Ehoiai#Nature, relation to the Catalogue and authorship. Nature, relation to the ''Catalogue'' and authorship]], below. Alternate [[Latin]] [[transliterations]] of the title are also occasionally used in modern scholarship: ''Megalae Ehoeae'' or ''Eoeae''; occasionally the Latin translation of ''Megalai'' is also found: i.e. ''Magnae Eoeae''.
  2. {{harvtxt. Cingano. 2009
  3. {{harvtxt. Most. 2006. Cingano. 2009
  4. These are "Hesiod" {{abbr. frr. fragments. 246–262 in the edition of record, {{harvtxt. Merkelbach. West. 1967.
  5. {{harvtxt. Cingano. 2009. Hirschberger. 2004 assigns to the ''ME'' eleven fragments which Merkelbach and West took to belong to the ''Cat''. On some of these fragments see {{harvtxt. D'Alessio. 2005c and [[#Doubtful and disputed fragments. Doubtful and disputed fragments, below]].
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