Moero
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's portrait of Moero for Les Kitharèdes by Renée Vivien. Moero ( , fl. ) or Myro ( ) 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.
's portrait of Moero for Les Kitharèdes by Renée Vivien.]] Moero ( , fl. ) or Myro ( ) 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.
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