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Phanocles’s Erotes, part of a body of literature named for one of this author’s works, lists same-sex mythological lovers like Orpheus and Calais using a modified form of the e’hoie formula. This author wins a tripod in a contest at Chalcis against his predecessor for his peaceful poems, as described in the Certamen. It’s not Homer, but a poem sometimes identified with this native of Ascra’s poem Megalai Ehoiai has sections beginning with “or such as,” which inspired a body of Hellenistic (*) catalogue poetry. This author discussed two (10[1])forms of Eris who respectively cause war and encourage men to action, counseling his brother to avoid the former in a didactic agricultural poem. One of this poet’s works opens with the Heliconian Muses giving him (-5[1])“a shoot of sturdy laurel” before this brother of Perses begins his song. For 10 points, name this epic poet of (0[1])Works and Days, who recounted divine genealogies in his Theogony. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Hesiod [or Hesiodos] (The unnamed work in the first few lines is the Catalogue of Women.)
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