Moero
Moero 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.Work
Little of Moero's poetry has survived. Ten lines from her epic poem Mnemosyne are quoted by Athenaeus, and though Meleager mentions "many" epigrams by Moero in the introductory poem to his Garland, only two four-line poems remain in the Greek Anthology. She also wrote a poem called Arai. This is known only through a scholion on Parthenius of Nicaea's Erotica Pathemata, which notes that the myth of Alcinoë is told in it. Finally, Eustathios mentions that she wrote a hymn to Poseidon.The surviving fragment of Moero's Mnemonsyne tells the story of Zeus' childhood on Crete, where he had been hidden by his mother Rhea to save him from being killed by his father Cronus. Like the surviving fragment of Corinna's poem on the contest between Cithaeron and Helicon, it retells an episode of Zeus' early life to emphasise the role of women. Moero's surviving epigrams are stylistically similar to the works of Anyte. One is addressed to a bunch of grapes; the other asks some dryads to protect a man who has carved a statuette for them. The latter is imitated by Hermocreon. Judging by her surviving poetry, Moero's work explored motherhood, women's responsibilities to their families, and female sexual desire.