Callimachus
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title:
Callimachus
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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 the poets of the Roman Empire and, through them, on all subsequent Western literature. Born into a prominent family in
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3rd-century BCE Greek poet, scholar and librarian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callimachus
date created:
2002-09-30T21:16:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T15:00:55Z
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