The
Catalogue of Women (,
Gynaikôn Katálogos)—also known as the
Ehoiai (, )—is a
fragmentary Greek epic poem that was attributed to
Hesiod during antiquity. The "women" of the title were in fact
heroines, many of whom lay with gods, bearing the heroes of
Greek mythology to both divine and mortal paramours. In contrast with the focus upon
narrative in the
Homeric Iliad and
Odyssey, the
Catalogue was structured around a vast system of
genealogies stemming from these unions and, in
M.L. West's appraisal, covered "the whole of the heroic age." Through the course of the poem's five books, these family trees were embellished with stories involving many of their members, and so the poem amounted to a compendium of heroic mythology in much the same way that the Hesiodic
Theogony presents a systematic account of the
Greek pantheon built upon divine genealogies.