Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

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ancient Greek epic poem didactic epic fragmentary literary work genealogical poem

The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women is an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that recounts the genealogies and heroic myths of mortal women who bore children to gods and heroes.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Hesiodic corpus	2
Hesiodic Catalogue of Women canonical	1
Hesiodic Catalogue poetry	1
Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women (fragmentary)	1
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156811 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Context triple: [Hesiod's Theogony, relatedWork, Hesiodic Catalogue of Women]

A. Hesiod's Theogony
Hesiod's Theogony is an ancient Greek didactic poem that systematically recounts the origins and genealogies of the gods, forming a foundational work of Greek mythology.
B. Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook that systematically compiles and summarizes the major myths and genealogies of Greek mythology.
C. Hesiod's Works and Days
Hesiod's *Works and Days* is an ancient Greek didactic poem that offers moral instruction, agricultural advice, and mythological narratives, including the ages of man and the story of Prometheus and Pandora.
D. Hesiod
Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
E. Orphic Mysteries
The Orphic Mysteries were an ancient Greek religious movement centered on the mythical figure Orpheus, emphasizing personal salvation, purification rites, and a dualistic view of the soul’s imprisonment in the body.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Target entity description: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women is an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that recounts the genealogies and heroic myths of mortal women who bore children to gods and heroes.

A. Hesiod's Theogony
Hesiod's Theogony is an ancient Greek didactic poem that systematically recounts the origins and genealogies of the gods, forming a foundational work of Greek mythology.
B. Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook that systematically compiles and summarizes the major myths and genealogies of Greek mythology.
C. Hesiod's Works and Days
Hesiod's *Works and Days* is an ancient Greek didactic poem that offers moral instruction, agricultural advice, and mythological narratives, including the ages of man and the story of Prometheus and Pandora.
D. Hesiod
Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
E. Orphic Mysteries
The Orphic Mysteries were an ancient Greek religious movement centered on the mythical figure Orpheus, emphasizing personal salvation, purification rites, and a dualistic view of the soul’s imprisonment in the body.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek epic poem ⓘ didactic epic ⓘ fragmentary literary work ⓘ genealogical poem ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Catalogue of Women ⓘ Ehoiai ⓘ
author	Hesiod ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Ancient Greece ⓘ linked to: Greek Antiquity
fieldOfStudy	Greek mythology ⓘ Greek philology ⓘ classics ⓘ
focusesOn	mortal women who bore children to gods and heroes ⓘ
genre	epic poetry ⓘ mythological genealogy ⓘ
includesCharacter	Alcmene ⓘ Europa ⓘ Helen of Troy ⓘ Leda ⓘ Tyro ⓘ
includesMyth	genealogy of the Heracleidae ⓘ genealogy of the heroes of the Trojan War ⓘ
influenced	Hellenistic scholarship on genealogy ⓘ later Greek mythographical tradition ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryForm	hexameter catalogue ⓘ
literaryPurpose	to organize heroic myth through female descent lines ⓘ
meter	dactylic hexameter ⓘ
narrativeFunction	connects heroic families across the Greek world ⓘ
partOf	Hesiodic corpus ⓘ linked to: Works of Hesiod
preservedBy	papyrus finds from Egypt ⓘ
referencedBy	Apollodorus ⓘ linked to: Apollodorus of Athens Pausanias ⓘ linked to: Pausanias’ Description of Greece scholia on classical authors ⓘ
relatedWork	Shield of Heracles ⓘ Theogony ⓘ linked to: Hesiod's Theogony Works and Days ⓘ linked to: Hesiod's Works and Days
scholarlyDebate	authenticity of Hesiodic authorship ⓘ original length and structure of the poem ⓘ
stateOfPreservation	fragmentary ⓘ
structure	series of entries introduced by the formula "or like her" (ἢ οἵη) ⓘ
subject	genealogies of mortal women ⓘ myths of heroic women ⓘ origins of Greek heroic lineages ⓘ unions between gods and mortal women ⓘ
survivesAs	papyrus fragments ⓘ quotations in later authors ⓘ
timeOfComposition	7th century BCE ⓘ Archaic period of Greek literature ⓘ
titleInGreek	Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος ⓘ linked to: Catalogue of Women
traditionalAttribution	Hesiod ⓘ

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