Callimachus (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Callimachus himself was a scholar and literary critic as well as a poet and wrote prose monographs on subjects as diverse as the names of tribes, rare words, barbarian customs, and marvelous occurrences throughout the world. Unfortunately, none of the prose is extant.
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Callimachus is the preeminent “Alexandrian” poet, the most daring, technically
skilled, and prolific among the writers practicing their art in that Hellenized Egyptian city during
the third century b.c.e. Like his contemporaries [The entire page is 4159 words long]
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