Callimachus
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Poetry, Poets, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Area of Achievement: Literature Greek poet{$I[g]Greece;Callimachus}{$I[g]Alexandria;Callimachus} Although most of Callimachus’s work has been lost, his hymns and epigrams—incorporating drama, sophistication, and a sense of history—survive as masterpieces of their kind. He set an ideal of tone and content that has influenced poets for centuries.
Early Life
The world into which Callimachus (kuh-LIHM-uh-kuhs) was born was a very different one from the world of the great poets and prose writers of fifth century b.c.e. Greece....
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