CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE
Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite. And they ruled over the famous Tyrsenians, very far off in a recess of the holy islands.
And the bright goddess Calypso was joined to Odysseus in sweet love, and bare him Nausithoüs and Nausinoüs.
These are the immortal goddesses who lay with mortal men and bare them children like unto gods.
But now, sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis, sing of the company of women.
THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE[1]
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That Deucalion was the son of Prometheus and Pronoea, Hesiod states in the first Catalogue, as also that Hellen was the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
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They came to call those who followed local manners Latins, but those who followed Hellenic customs Greeks, after the brothers Latinus and Graecus; as Hesiod says:
- ↑ A catalogue of heroines each of whom was introduced with the words ἢ οἵη, "Or like her."
