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.