ancient authors most commonly referred to the poem as the "catalogue of women", or simply the "catalogue", but several alternate titles were also employed. the tenth-century encyclopedia known as the "suda" gives an expanded version, the "catalogue of heroic women" (), and another late source, the twelfth-century byzantine poet and grammarian tzetzes, prefers to call the poem the "heroic genealogy" (). but the earliest and most popular alternate title was "ehoiai" (), after the feminine formula "ē' hoiē" (, ), "or such as", which introduces new sections within the poem via the introduction of a heroine or heroines. this nickname also provided the standard title for a similar hesiodic work, the "megalai ehoiai" or "great ehoiai" ().