Moero
Sign in to savethumb|right|Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer'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. 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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- 0400-01-01
- Died
- 0400-00-00
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- 1 January 400 BCE
- Died
- 400 BCE
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- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Byzantium
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- Homeros of Byzantion
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Field of work
- poetry
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- Moero Lévy-Dhurmer.jpg
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thumb|right|Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer'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. 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.