The Greek poet Callimachus (ca. 305-240 BC) is regarded as the most characteristic representative of Alexandrian poetry. Learning, polish, and contemporaneity characterize his work, which had enormous...
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Callimachus was the most influential Alexandrian poet, scholar, and literary critic of his time, a figure who exerted an enormous influence on Greek, Roman, and, eventually, European literature. The a...
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The following excerpt, drawn from his Hellenistic Poetry, presents Körte's summation of Callimachus as a writer of elegy, epic, and epigram. Examining Callimachus' work largely in t...
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In the following excerpt from his book The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought, originally published in German in 1948, Snell declares Callimachus the 'father of Hellen...
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In his book-length study of Callimachus 's Bath of Pallas, classicist K. J. McKay begins with an overview, excerpted below, of the poet's six hymns. In an effort to determine date of com...
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In the following excerpt from his Hellenistic Poetry and Art, Webster considers Callimachus's reputation during his career and his aesthetic criteria, simultaneously providing an extensive exam...
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One of the most-cited Callimachus scholars, Pfeiffer presents an in-depth study of ancient Greek scholarship in his History of Classical Scholarship: From the Beginning to the End of the Hellenistic A...
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In the following excerpt, Zanker studies the use of pictorial realism among Alexandrian poets, looking at Callimachus alongside Appollonius, Theocritus, and Herodas. Zanker's discussion of Call...
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In the excerpt that follows, Blum focuses his attention on Callimachus the scholar rather than Callimachus the poet. Blum carefully reconstructs the history of the royal library at Alexandria, attempt...
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Callimachus
Callimachus
