Callimachus
Sign in to saveCallimachus (; ; ) was an ancient Greek poet, scholar, and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, he wrote over 800 literary works, most of which do not survive, in a wide variety of genres. He espoused an aesthetic philosophy, known as Callimacheanism, which exerted a strong influence on poets of the Roman Empire and, through their reception, on later Western literature.
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Callimachus was an ancient Greek poet, scholar, and librarian who lived in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC and wrote hundreds of literary works across many different genres, though most have been lost to time. His distinctive approach to poetry, called Callimacheanism, became highly influential among Roman poets and continued to shape Western literature long after his death.
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15 sectionsContents
- Life
- Literary work
- ''Epigrams''
- ''Hymns''
- ''Aetia''
- ''Iambs''
- ''Hecale''
- ''Pinakes''
- Callimacheanism
- Reception
- Ancient
- Modern
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Callimachus (; ; ) was an ancient Greek poet, scholar, and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, he wrote over 800 literary works, most of which do not survive, in a wide variety of genres. He espoused an aesthetic philosophy, known as Callimacheanism, which exerted a strong influence on poets of the Roman Empire and, through their reception, on later Western literature.
Born into a prominent family in the Greek city of Cyrene in modern-day Libya, he was educated in Alexandria, the capital of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt. After working as a schoolteacher in the city, he came under the patronage of King Ptolemy II Philadelphus and was employed at the Library of Alexandria where he compiled the Pinakes, a comprehensive catalogue of all Greek literature. He is believed to have lived into the reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes.