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	Callimachus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Hellenistic period, a major trend in Greek-language poetry was to reject the epic, instead idealizing a form of poetry that was brief, yet carefully formed and worded, and Callimachus excelled at this style.
		Callimachus also wrote poems in praise of his royal patron and a wide variety of other poetic styles, as well as prose and criticism.
		Though Callimachus was an opponent of 'big books,' the Suda puts his number of works at (a possibly exaggerated) 800, suggesting that he found large quantities of small works more acceptable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Callimachus (596 words)

	Apollonius Rhodius - Wikipedia
		Hij kreeg een verzorgde opvoeding aan de Bibliotheek van Alexandrië (hij was leerling van Callimachus).
		Apollonius Rhodius tracht in zijn belangrijkste werk, de Argonautica, van de van Callimachus aangeleerde en artificiële stijl af te stappen en tot zijn eigen, op de Homerische eenvoud gebaseerde stijl te komen.
		Hij droeg zijn werk voor terwijl hij amper volwassen was, maar het gedicht kreeg weinig bijval van de door Callimachus gedomineerde omgeving in de bibliotheek van Alexandrië.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollonius_van_Rhodos (354 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 571 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Callimachus was conspicuously figured in the fresco painting of the battle of Marathon, by Polygnotus, in the crroa TToiKiXt}.
		Callimachus was one of the most distinguished grammarians, critics, and poets of the Alexandrine period, and his celebrity surpassed that of nearly all the other Alexandrine scholars and poets.
		Callimachus was one of the most fertile writers of antiquity, and if the number in Suidas be correct, he wrote 800 works, though we may take it for granted that most of them were not of great extent, if he followed his own maxim, that a great book was equal to a great evil.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0580.html (1109 words)

	Callimachus (letterkundige) - Wikipedia
		Callimachus (Kallimachos) was een Grieks letterkundige en dichter, geboren in Cyrene (Noord-Afrika) rond 305, en overleden circa 240 v.
		Als jongeman verhuisde Callimachus van zijn geboortestad Cyrene naar Alexandrië, waar hij schoolmeester werd.
		Wij bezitten van Callimachus een zestigtal epigrammen en zes hymnen (op Zeus, Apollo, Artemis, het eiland Delos, het bad van Pallas Athene en Demeter) volledig; van de rest van zijn dichtwerk zijn ruim 700 grotere en kleinere fragmenten bewaard gebleven.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Callimachus_%28letterkundige%29 (274 words)

	CALLIMACHUS (LETTERKUNDIGE) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Callimachus was een Grieks letterkundige en schrijver, geboren in Cyrene (Noord-Africa) rond 310, en overleden in 240 v.
		Na zijn literaire studie te Athene werd Callimachus docent grammatica, verbonden aan de Bibliotheek van Alexandrië, waar hij als ijverig verzamelaar van handschriften een geziene figuur aan het hof der eerste twee Ptolemaeërs was.
		Wij bezitten van Callimachus een zestigtal epigrammen en enkele hymnen (op Zeus, Apollo en Artemis); de rest van zijn dichtwerk en alle proza is verloren gegaan.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/C/Callimachus_(letterkundige) (229 words)

	Callimachus (polemarch) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Callimachus was polemarch in Athens in 490 BC, and was one of the commanders at the Battle of Marathon.
		As polemarch, Callimachus had a vote in military affairs along with the 10 strategoi, the generals, such as Miltiades.
		Although the Greeks were victorious, Callimachus was killed during the fighting.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Callimachus_(polemarch).html (158 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Callimachus
		The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance...
		Callimachus was an important librarian, bio-bibliographer, and cataloger at the Alexandrian Library in the third century B.C.E. He has been referred to by many as the "Founding Father" of librarians (1).
		Callimachus wrote a great deal of poetry before working in the Library and while he was working there.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Callimachus (1457 words)

	Callimachus
		Callimachus dismissed the long poems bluntly: "Big book, big bore." He criticized writers who produced epics in the ancient manner; Callimaches preferred the short form and his poems were admired for their polished refinement.
		Callimachus was a prolific writer, who also published tragedies, comedies, and studies on different fields of knowledge, such as a study of the writings and language of Democritus of Abdera.
		Callimachus apparently was never appointed director of the library, one of the most prestigious offices in Alexandria.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /callimac.htm (1387 words)

	Detail Page
		Callimachus was the Alexandrian poet par excellence: witty, scholarly, and favoring brief forms and cerebral topics.
		Callimachus never reattained the prestigious post of director of the Library, but rather was passed over in favor of Apollonius after the retirement of the director Zenodotus.
		Callimachus' epigrams have been praised for their sincere emotion and their charming word use; they include epitaphs and expressions of sexual desire.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0108 (619 words)

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		While Callimachus' manipulation of earlier and contemporary writers is apparent and is indispensible for a full understanding of the artistry of his verse, Haslam argues that the hymns can be read and enjoyed even without knowledge of the material to which the poet alludes.
		Callimachus, Henrichs perceptively notes, appears "to construct a triangle composed of the ways gods perform, the way a poet performs, and the way a Hellenistic king performs," yet, as he adds, "it takes a poet to corroborate the connection" (146).
		The comparison with contemporary agonistic epigrams reveals that Callimachus' epinicians share the role of bystander as opposed to the archaic messenger, the pretense to be dedicatory (many were envisaged as being on statues), and the emphasis on the fact that the victory is a first for a family.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9405-clauss-callimachus.txt (3315 words)

	The Argonautica: Introduction
		The date of Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo", which closes with some lines (105-113) that are admittedly an allusion to Apollonius, may be put with much probability at 248 or 247 B.C. Apollonius must at that date have been at least twenty years old.
		Callimachus attacks Apollonius in the passage at the end of the "Hymn to Apollo", already mentioned, also probably in some epigrams, but most of all in his "Ibis", of which we have an imitation, or perhaps nearly a translation, in Ovid's poem of the same name.
		Callimachus was in accordance with the spirit of the age when he proclaimed "a great book" to be "a great evil", and sought to confine poetical activity within the narrowest limits both of subject and space.
	fraktali.849pm.com /text/archive/myth/argon/introduction.html (1253 words)

	Callimachus Bibliography 2000-2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Allusion in the Poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
		Poetic theology in the Hymns of Callimachus.’ In: Callimaque.
		Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius Rhodius.’ In: Theodore Papanghelis and Antonios Rengakos (edd.).
	www.gltc.leidenuniv.nl /index.php3?m=28&c=125 (4358 words)

	Callimachus of Cyrene
		Callimachus was born in Cyrene in c.310, and moved to Alexandria, where he lived at the court of the Ptolemaic king Ptolemy II Philadelphus, a great patron of the arts, and, later, queen
		In Alexandria, Callimachus innovated poetry, and it is not much exaggerated to state that it was at Alexandria that literature as we know it was invented: quite useless but entertaining.
		Callimachus' contribution consisted of no less than 800 books, but almost everything is lost, including his Pinakes, a classification of Greek literature in 120 books.
	www.livius.org /caa-can/callimachus/callimachus.html (266 words)

	destinationKM.com: Taxonomy of the Ancients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Callimachus' duties included maintaining the collections, assimilating new acquisitions as they were brought in and locating specific scrolls for visiting scholars.
		Callimachus continued to add to the tables until his death in 240 B.C., and his successors and their assistants continued the task.
		Callimachus' contribution to the development of knowledge management, therefore, does not begin or end with the invention of the bibliography and the library catalog; it includes as well the creation of a data store that outlasted its unique and fascinating subject.
	www.destinationcrm.com /km/dcrm_km_article.asp?id=812 (692 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.07.12
		The author concludes that the reason Callimachus chose Hipponax, and not the more obvious Archilochus, as his model was the scazon, Hipponax' metrical innovation that never lost its "iambic" character, as opposed to the trimeter, which had come to be used for any topic and tone.
		What is more noteworthy, I believe, is the very fact that Callimachus chose to begin his new book of iambic verse with the supernatural appearance of one of the great archaic poets and the inventor of the meter of the inaugural poem.
		Callimachus acts as Hipponax preaches and ingeniously surpasses the mordant speaker of the poem" (p.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2001/2001-07-12.html (3729 words)

	Callimachus, architect, sculptor
		Callimachus (Kallimachos) was an architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC in the manner established by Polyclitus.
		Callimachus is credited with the sculptures of Nikes on the frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike ("Athena, Bringer of Victory") on the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.
		Callimachus is credited with inventing the Corinthian capital, which Roman architects erected into one of the Classical orders.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/CallimachusSculptor.html (666 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.02.04
		A.-H. also demonstrates Callimachus' pervasive concerns throughout the Iambi with ethical and aesthetic criticism, the metaphor of a journey for the connection to earlier Greek poetry, the mixing of humble and elevated registers, the crossing of genres, and Callimachean poetics.
		After a brief review of fable in Greek literature and elsewhere in Callimachus, A.-H. moves to the main argument of this chapter, that Callimachus appropriates Aesop and the olive tree as models of Callimachean poetics, and that their humble status is particularly appropriate to his uninflated (i.e.
		Thus, in Iambus 3 Callimachus recreates Hipponax' marginalized persona in terms of a poet in need of patronage and in Iambus 5 as a colleague of the humble school-teacher that he admonishes.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-02-04.html (2046 words)

	Polyeideia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Functioning by turns as historian, commentator, and critic, Acosta-Hughes gives readers of Callimachus a fresh perspective on both the archaic models for the Iambs and the novel ways Callimachus deploys and organizes his reactions to his predecessors.
		The output is splendid: it is indeed as if Callimachus had paved the way for his implied reader to read the Iambs diagonally.
		Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other genres, especially to such collections as Horace's Epodes.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8712.html (689 words)

	Apollonius of Rhodes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Apollonius of Rhodes (Apollonius Rhodius), librarian at Alexandria, was a poet, the author of Argonautica, a literary epic retelling of ancient material concerning Jason and the Argonauts ' quest for the Golden Fleece in the mythic land of Colchis.
		Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo", closes with some lines that allude to Apollonius, and dates about 248 or 247 BCE, which would put Apollonius' birth about twenty years earlier.
		There his labors as a teacher of rhetoric and his newly revised poem won him hearty recognition and even admission to citizenship, whence his surname.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Apollonius_of_Rhodes.html (893 words)

	Lives of the Hellenistic Poets
		Alexander of Aetolia, Anaxippus, Apollodorus of Gela, Apollodorus of Athens, Apollonius of Rhodes, Aratus of Soli, Archedicus, Callimachus, Eratosthenes, Erinna, Euphorion, Homerus of Byzantium, Ister, Leschides, Lycophron, Lynceus, Menander, Moschus, Nicander, Parthenius, Philemon, Philetas, Philicus, Philippides, Poseidippus, Rhianus, Rhinthon, Simonides of Magnesia, Sotades, Theocritus, Timolaus, Zenodotus
		Callimachus mentions Aratus as being older than himself, not only in his epigrams, but also in his [letters] to Praxiphanes; he is full of praise [for Aratus] as an erudite and outstanding poet.
		He met [Callimachus] of Cyrene when Callimachus was an old man, and was chosen to be the subject of one of his epigrams.
	www.attalus.org /translate/poets.html (4823 words)

	The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The principal event in his life, so far as we know, was the quarrel with his master Callimachus, which was most probably the cause of his condemnation at Alexandria and departure to Rhodes.
		Epic poetry was out of fashion and we find many epigrams of this period--some by Callimachus--directed against the "cyclic" poets, by whom were meant at that time those who were always dragging in conventional and commonplace epithets and phrases peculiar to epic poetry.
		These traits are more prominent in Callimachus than in Apollonius, but they are certainly to be seen in the latter.
	www.hiddenmysteries.com /freebook/argonaut/intro.html (1359 words)

	Callimachus Biography / Biography of Callimachus Literary Biography
		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 author of more than eight hundred works (about forty survive in fragmentary form), he left literary works largely in the field of poetry, a genre in which he is in the front rank of ancient authors in terms of influence, if not poetic art.
		Called by the Roman poet Ovid "less gifted than skilled," Callimachus filled his verses with what a later Greek poet called "astringent honey"; and he celebrated the human aspects of myth for a world in which myth was largely ceremonial, if not religiously irrelevant.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-callimachus-dlb (199 words)

	Lang: Ambiguous Goats and Other Paradoxes in Callimachus' Acontius and Cydippe
		Callimachus' Acontius and Cydippe recounts the story of Cydippe, a young woman of Naxos who had accidentally sworn to Artemis that she would marry only Acontius.
		According to Callimachus, the customs of Naxos dictated that a man and woman should share the same bed on the eve of their marriage, allegedly in honor of the premarital incest of Zeus and Hera.
		Callimachus declares the label 'sacred' to be false, but at the same time the goats in his poem carry out a sacred role in the expulsion of the disease.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2005/abstracts2005/lang.html (335 words)

	Callimachus
		Callimachus gives credence to the idea of choice in the Hymn to Zeus as well, writing that as the conqueror of Kronos, it is Zeus’ right to be the king of all gods.
		Callimachus’ depiction of the gods cannot be seen as a direct commentary on his patron mainly because of the gods’ limited interaction with the human world.
		Callimachus deliberately omits the story of Aktaion’s death since the myth is referenced in the poem to Athena, Bath of Pallas: “How many burnt offerings will the daughter of Kadmos and Aristaios make, praying one day to see their only son, the young Aktaion,” (132-134).
	www.horrorart.biz /Jennifer/Callimachus.htm (1733 words)

	Alibris: Callimachus
		Callimachus of Cyrene, 3rd century BC, became after 284 a teacher of grammar and poetry at Alexandria.
		In the present volume are included fragments of Callimachus' "Aetia (Causes), aetiological legends concerning Greek history and customs; fragments of a book of "Iambi; 147 fragments of the epic poem "Hecale, which described Theseus' victory over the bull which infested Marathon; and other fragments.
		Callimachus was one of the most important and influential writers in the ancient world.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Callimachus (431 words)

	Callimachus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Callimachus, a young man of Ephesus, reveals to his friends that he is infatuated with Drusiana, the devout wife of Andronicus.
		Callimachus leaves them in disgust and proceeds to the home of Drusiana to try to win her love.
		Although Callimachus initially dissents, he finally agrees after St. John explains that the grace of God teaches for forgiveness of all men, however vile their sin.
	www.letu.edu /people/annieolson/projects/hrotswitha/callimachus.html (413 words)

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