Moero
ancient Greek poet
Moero (Ancient Greek: Μοιρώ, fl. c. 300 BC) or Myro (Ancient Greek: Μυρώ) was a woman poet of the Hellenistic period from the city of Byzantium (modern Istanbul). Little of her poetry survives: ten lines of her epic poem Mnemosyne are quoted by Athenaeus, and two of her epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology; two other poems are known only through mentions in other sources.
Life
Moero was the wife of Andromachus Philologus and the mother – the Suda says daughter, but this is less likely – of the tragedian Homerus of Byzantium. She was probably active during the late fourth and early third centuries BC.
Work
Little of Moero's poetry has survived. Ten lines from her epic poem Mnemosyne are quoted by Athenaeus, and though Meleager mentions "many" epigrams by Moero in the introductory poem to his Garland, only two four-line poems remain in the Greek Anthology. She also wrote a poem called Arai ("Curses"). This is known only through a scholion on Parthenius of Nicaea's Erotica Pathemata, which notes that the myth of Alcinoë is told in it. Eustathius mentions that she wrote a hymn to Poseidon, and Pausanias reports that one of her poems told a story about Amphion, a mythical king of Thebes.
The surviving fragment of Moero's Mnemonsyne tells the story of Zeus' childhood on Crete, where he had been hidden by his mother Rhea to save him from being killed by his father Cronus.
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