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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 (15[1])against his predecessor for his peaceful poems, as described in the Certamen. It’s not Homer, but a poem sometimes identified (-5[1])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 forms of Eris who respectively cause war and encourage men to action, counseling his brother to avoid the former in a didactic (10[1])agricultural poem. (-5[2])One of this poet’s works opens with the Heliconian Muses giving him “a shoot of sturdy laurel” before this brother of Perses begins his song. For 10 points, name this epic poet of Works and (10[1]-5[1])Days, who recounted divine genealogies in his Theogony. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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