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Moero
'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.
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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.
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