Megalai Ehoiai

TheMegalai Ehoiai(Ancient Greek:Μεγάλαι Ἠοῖαι,Ancient:[meɡálaiɛːhói.ai]), orGreat Ehoiai,^[1]is afragmentary Greek epicpoem that was popularly, though not universally, attributed toHesiodduring antiquity.^[2]Like the more widely read HesiodicCatalogue of Women,theMegalai Ehoiaiwas agenealogicalpoem structured around the exposition ofheroic family treesamong which myths concerning many of their members were narrated.^[3]At least seventeen fragments of the poem are transmitted by quotations in other ancient authors and two second-century CEpapyri,^[4]but given the similarities between theMegalai EhoiaiandCatalogue of Womenit is possible that some fragments attributed to theCatalogueactually derive from the less popular Hesiodic work.^[5]Indeed, most of the scholarly attention devoted to the poem has been concerned with its relation to theCatalogueand whether or not the title "Megalai Ehoiai"in fact referred to a single, independent epic.

Select editions and translations[edit]

Critical editions[edit]

Rzach, A. (1908),Hesiodi Carmina(2nd rev. ed.), Leipzig{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
Merkelbach, R.;West, M.L.(1967),Fragmenta Hesiodea,Oxford,ISBN 0-19-814171-8{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1990), "Fragmenta selecta", inF. Solmsen(ed.),Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum(3rd rev. ed.), Oxford,ISBN 0-19-814071-1{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
Hirschberger, M. (2004),Gynaikōn Katalogos und Megalai Ēhoiai: Ein Kommentar zu den Fragmenten zweier hesiodeischer Epen,Munich & Leipzig,ISBN 3-598-77810-4{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

Translations[edit]

Evelyn-White, H.G. (1936),Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica,Loeb Classical Library,vol. no. 57 (3rd rev. ed.), Cambridge, Massachusetts,ISBN 978-0-674-99063-0{{citation}}:|volume=has extra text (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).(The link is to the 1st edition of 1914.) English translation with facing Greek text of all the fragments inMerkelbach & West (1967)except for frr. 251(a) and 259(a).
Most, G.W.(2006),Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia,Loeb Classical Library, vol. no. 57, Cambridge, Massachusetts,ISBN 978-0-674-99622-9{{citation}}:|volume=has extra text (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
Most, G.W. (2007),Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue, Other Fragments,Loeb Classical Library, vol. no. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,ISBN 978-0-674-99623-6{{citation}}:|volume=has extra text (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

References[edit]

^AbbreviatedME.On the meaning and significance of the title seeNature, relation to theCatalogueand authorship,below. AlternateLatin transliterationsof the title are also occasionally used in modern scholarship:Megalae EhoeaeorEoeae;occasionally the Latin translation ofMegalaiis also found: i.e.MagnaeEoeae.
^Cingano (2009,p. 119).
^Most (2006,p. lix),Cingano (2009,pp. 118–19).
^These are "Hesiod"frr.246–262 in the edition of record,Merkelbach & West (1967).
^Cingano (2009,pp. 120–1). In her recent edition of theCat.andME,for example,Hirschberger (2004)assigns to theMEeleven fragments which Merkelbach and West took to belong to theCat.On some of these fragments seeD'Alessio (2005c)andDoubtful and disputed fragments, below.

Bibliography[edit]

Cingano, E. (2009), "The Hesiodic Corpus", in Montanari; Rengakos; Tsagalis (eds.),Brill's Companion to Hesiod,pp. 91–130.
Cohen, I.M. (1986), "The HesiodicCatalogue of WomenandMegalai Ehoiai",Phoenix,40(2): 127–42,doi:10.2307/1088507,JSTOR 1088507.
D'Alessio, G.B. (2005a), "TheMegalai Ehoiai:A Survey of the Fragments ", in Hunter (ed.),The Hesidioc Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions,pp. 176–216.
D'Alessio, G.B. (2005b), "Ordered from theCatalogue:Pindar, Bacchylides and Hesiodic Genealogical Poetry ", in Hunter (ed.),The Hesidioc Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions,pp. 217–38.
D'Alessio, G.B. (2005c),"Martina Hirschberger, Gynaikôn Katalogos und Megalai Ehoiai. Ein Kommentar zu den Fragmenten zweier hesiodeischer Epen. BzA 198. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 511. ISBN 3-598-77810-4. €110.00.",Review,Bryn Mawr Classical Review,2005.02.31.
Hunter, R. (2005),The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions,Cambridge,ISBN 0-521-83684-0{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
Leo, F. (1894), "Hesiodea",Ausgewählte kleine Schriften,vol. ii, Rome, pp. 343–63{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
Montanari, F.; Rengakos, A.; Tsagalis, C. (2009),Brill's Companion to Hesiod,Leiden,ISBN 978-90-04-17840-3{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
Schwartz, J. (1960),Pseudo-Hesiodeia: recherches sur la composition, la diffusion et la disparition ancienne d'oeuvres attribuées à Hésiode,Leiden{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
West, M.L. (1985),The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins,Oxford,ISBN 0-19-814034-7{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

External links[edit]

English translationat the Theoi Project, from the first edition (1914) ofEvelyn-White (1936).

[1] AbbreviatedME.On the meaning and significance of the title seeNature, relation to theCatalogueand authorship,below. AlternateLatin transliterationsof the title are also occasionally used in modern scholarship:Megalae EhoeaeorEoeae;occasionally the Latin translation ofMegalaiis also found: i.e.MagnaeEoeae.

[2] Cingano (2009,p. 119).

[3] Most (2006,p. lix),Cingano (2009,pp. 118–19).

[4] These are "Hesiod"frr.246–262 in the edition of record,Merkelbach & West (1967).

[5] Cingano (2009,pp. 120–1). In her recent edition of theCat.andME,for example,Hirschberger (2004)assigns to theMEeleven fragments which Merkelbach and West took to belong to theCat.On some of these fragments seeD'Alessio (2005c)andDoubtful and disputed fragments, below.

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v t e Hesiod
Extant poems	Theogony Works and Days Shield of Heracles
Fragmentary poems	Catalogue of Women Megalai Ehoiai "Wedding of Ceyx" "Melampodia" "Descent of Perithous" "Idaean Dactyls" "Precepts of Chiron" "Megala Erga" "Astronomia" "Aegimius" "Kiln"

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