The title            seems to have a
   risen in the following way: the               "Catalogues" probably ended (ep.
                       "Theogony") with some                          |    such passage as this: 2) On the other hand                       while tradition \   steadily puts the Cyclic poets at various dates           poetry      
     from 776 B.C. downwards,          as old as old               poetry  can be thee is alway    just as in          the beginning
        thee was a gree  n-skinned woman r       e women who by  dint of pure     sheer circumstance       s       s      s         were nake             d & fulsome beyon     (        g) d compared to             anything female walking today               s a nugget of truth or mo (t)               re              than we willing to admit; cause we m our mind can'              t wrap around civilization going all the way back to the very          origin of spacetime before all creation as we know it; t            her e     wer          e people         just like     a)ours        elves at the very origin of time
                       it is equally             consistent in regarding Homer and Hesiod as           'prehistoric'.    Herodotus i    ndeed puts both         poets 400      .                       years before  his own time;
that is           .           , at about 830-820 B.C.
'But now, ye Muses,          .              .                  .                   sing of the tribes
                                 of women                                         .             with whom
    .                the Sons of Heaven                (women)
        .       .                                  were j        oined in love,      women pre-eminent                                     above their fellows in beauty,
.                 such as                      was Niobe  (goddesses)        
.'Each succeeding heroine          
                                    was        ­ then introduced      .        by the formula 'Or such as was...'