Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Moero

MOERO (Μοιρω), or MYRO (Μυρω), a Byzantine poetess, the wife of Andromachus surnamed Philologus, and the mother of the grammarian and tragic poet Homerus [HOMERUS]. She wrote epic, elegiac, and lyric poems. Athenaeus (xi. p. 490, e.) quotes a passage from a poem written by her, named Μνημοσυνη. Eustathius (ad Il. ii. p. 247) mentions a hymn to Poseidon, the production of Myro, who is probably identical with Moero, who is called Myro by Suidas. One of her epigrams is contained in the Anthology (iv. 1). Other fragments are given in Brunck's Anal. vol. i. p. 202. (Suidas, s.v. Μυρω, with Küster's note; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 131, &c.; Groddeck, Initia Hist. Graec. Lit. ii. p. 4) [C.P.M.]