Only two epigrams written by Moero (Myro) of Byzantium survive. There are also ten lines from an hexameter poem quoted by Athenaeus, a second century author, that are thought to be hers. From such fragments, we think Moero may have written lyric, hexameter, and epigrams. Meleager described Moero's poetry as lilies.

The poem presumed to have been written by Moero and quoted by Athenaeus is about the Pleiades, treated as doves and pursued by the hunter Orion. In the Moero - Athenaeus version, the doves were put in the skies by Zeus out of gratitude to them for feeding him when he was hidden in infancy.

Moero Epigrams

The Women and the Lyre. Jane McIntosh Snyder. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

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