Callimachus (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)
Life
Callimachus (kuh-LIHM-uh-kuhs) of Cyrene was educated in Athens and traveled to Alexandria, where he worked in the Alexandrian library. He cataloged its works, producing a catalog so detailed that it provides a full literary history of the Hellenic world.
Callimachus wrote prose and criticism, but his poetry had the most influence on later generations of writers. The most famous of his works is Aitiōn (c. 270 b.c.e.; Aetia, 1958), a four-volume elegy retelling a number of Greek legends and myths. The structure of Aetia, a series of short...
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