Callimachus
Overview
| Works: | 117 works in 323 publications in 9 languages and 9,680 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Hymns, Greek (Classical) |
| Roles: | Author |
| Classifications: | PA3945, 881.01 |
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Most widely held works about
Callimachus
- The scroll and the marble : studies in reading and reception in Hellenistic poetry by Peter Bing( )
- Poetic memory : allusion in the poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid by Heather van Tress( )
- Aetia, Iambi, lyric poems, Hecale, minor epic and elegiac poems, and other fragments by Callimachus( Book )
- Callimachus : hymns, epigrams, select fragments by Callimachus( Book )
- Hellenistic poetry by G. O Hutchinson( Book )
- Callimachus by John Ferguson( Book )
- Kallimachos : the Alexandrian Library and the origins of bibliography by Rudolf Blum( Book )
- The poems of Callimachus by Callimachus( Book )
- Callimachus: the hymns by Callimachus( Book )
- Callimachus and his critics by Alan Cameron( )
- Künstlichkeit von Kunst : zur Geschichtlichkeit der alexandrinischen Poesie by Ernst-Richard Schwinge( Book )
- Callimachus in context : from Plato to the Augustan poets by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes( Book )
- Hymns and epigrams by Callimachus( )
- Brill's companion to Callimachus by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes( Book )
- Callimachus by Annette Harder( Book )
- The shadow of Callimachus : studies in the reception of Hellenistic poetry at Rome by R. L Hunter( )
- Werke : griechisch und deutsch by Callimachus( Book )
- Kinder und junge Helden : innovative Aspekte des Umgangs mit der literarischen Tradition bei Kallimachos by Annemarie Ambühl( Book )
- Callimaco : cent'anni di papiri : atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze, 9-10 giugno 2005 by Convegno internazionale di studi( Book )
- Cirene e il nuovo Callimaco by Goffredo Coppola( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Callimachus
Callimachus: Hymns and Epigrams. Lycophron by
Callimachus(
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15 editions published between 1955 and 1969 in English and Greek, Ancient and held by 259 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
15 editions published between 1955 and 1969 in English and Greek, Ancient and held by 259 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis by
Hesiod(
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20 editions published between 1856 and 1914 in English and held by 204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
20 editions published between 1856 and 1914 in English and held by 204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Callimaque ... by
Callimachus(
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19 editions published between 1922 and 1972 in 5 languages and held by 184 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
19 editions published between 1922 and 1972 in 5 languages and held by 184 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Die Dichtungen des Kallimachos, Griechisch und Deutsch by
Callimachus(
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22 editions published between 1955 and 1956 in 4 languages and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
22 editions published between 1955 and 1956 in 4 languages and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Aetia by
Callimachus(
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1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Aetia, Iambi, lyric poems, Hecale, minor epic and elegiac poems, and other fragments by
Callimachus(
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13 editions published between 1958 and 2004 in English and Greek, Ancient and held by 114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
We have no explicit information about the poet MUSAEUS, author of the short epic poem on Hero and Leander, except that he is given in some manuscripts, the title Grammatikos, a teacher, learned in the rhetoric, poetry and philosophy of his time. He was obviously a follower of the Egyptian poet Nonnus of Panopolis, of the fifth century A.D., and his poem seems also to presuppose the Paraphrase of the Psalms of Pseudo-Apollinarius which can be dated to the period 460-470. He may well be identical with the addressee of two letters by Procopius of Gaza (c. 465-528). Among the authors of that period of Egyptians Colluthus and Christodorus of Coptus quote him, and he seems to rank as an already recognized authority in the circle of scholars, poets and orators of the time of Anastasius I (491-518). He takes up a subject whose first detailed treatment is preserved in Ovids Heroides (Epistles 18 and 19), but he presents it in a quite different manner. Among the literary antecedents to which this learned Grammatikos expressly alludes, the most prominent are Books 5 and 6 of the Odyssey and Platos Phaedrus. Besides his knowledge of the Hymns of Proclus he quotes not only the Metaphrasis of the Gospel of St. John by Nonnus, but also a poem by St. Gregory Nazianzenus and even the New Testatment. So he was probably a Christian Neoplatonist writing a Christian allegory. This publication completes the cycle of late Greek epics in the tradition of Nonnus
13 editions published between 1958 and 2004 in English and Greek, Ancient and held by 114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
We have no explicit information about the poet MUSAEUS, author of the short epic poem on Hero and Leander, except that he is given in some manuscripts, the title Grammatikos, a teacher, learned in the rhetoric, poetry and philosophy of his time. He was obviously a follower of the Egyptian poet Nonnus of Panopolis, of the fifth century A.D., and his poem seems also to presuppose the Paraphrase of the Psalms of Pseudo-Apollinarius which can be dated to the period 460-470. He may well be identical with the addressee of two letters by Procopius of Gaza (c. 465-528). Among the authors of that period of Egyptians Colluthus and Christodorus of Coptus quote him, and he seems to rank as an already recognized authority in the circle of scholars, poets and orators of the time of Anastasius I (491-518). He takes up a subject whose first detailed treatment is preserved in Ovids Heroides (Epistles 18 and 19), but he presents it in a quite different manner. Among the literary antecedents to which this learned Grammatikos expressly alludes, the most prominent are Books 5 and 6 of the Odyssey and Platos Phaedrus. Besides his knowledge of the Hymns of Proclus he quotes not only the Metaphrasis of the Gospel of St. John by Nonnus, but also a poem by St. Gregory Nazianzenus and even the New Testatment. So he was probably a Christian Neoplatonist writing a Christian allegory. This publication completes the cycle of late Greek epics in the tradition of Nonnus
Hecale by
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2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Adrian Hollis's second edition of Callimachus' Hecale includes an English translation of the original Greek text. Twenty years after the first edition appeared in 1990, close study of the Byzantine poets, scholars, and clerics who knew Callimachus' poem intimately has allowed significant progress in our understanding of the poem. Equally valuable are two Byzantine lexicons which clearly had access to an ancient commentary on the Hecale; an Attic vase, which provides our first artistic representation of the myth; and an inscribed Greek elegy from Kandahar, which suggests that Callimachus' 'miniature epic' was known to a Greek poet working in that remote bastion of Hellenism - additional proof of the poet's importance within Hellenistic culture
2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Adrian Hollis's second edition of Callimachus' Hecale includes an English translation of the original Greek text. Twenty years after the first edition appeared in 1990, close study of the Byzantine poets, scholars, and clerics who knew Callimachus' poem intimately has allowed significant progress in our understanding of the poem. Equally valuable are two Byzantine lexicons which clearly had access to an ancient commentary on the Hecale; an Attic vase, which provides our first artistic representation of the myth; and an inscribed Greek elegy from Kandahar, which suggests that Callimachus' 'miniature epic' was known to a Greek poet working in that remote bastion of Hellenism - additional proof of the poet's importance within Hellenistic culture
Callimachi Cyrenæi Hymni : (cum suis scholiis græcis) & Epigrammata by
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3 editions published in 1577 in 3 languages and held by 66 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1577 in 3 languages and held by 66 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Aetia, Iambi, lyric poems, Hecale, minor epic and elegiac poems, fragments of epigrams, fragments of uncertain location by
Callimachus(
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2 editions published between 1958 and 1968 in English and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published between 1958 and 1968 in English and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hymn to Zeus by
Callimachus(
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7 editions published in 1977 in 3 languages and held by 51 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 1977 in 3 languages and held by 51 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hymns and epigrams by
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3 editions published between 1955 and 2000 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
CALLIMACHUS of Cyrene, 3rd century B.C., became after 284 B.C. a teacher of 'grammar', and poetry at Alexandria where he was made a librarian in the "University' and prepared a catalogue of the books in its library. He died about the year 240. Of his large published output, only 6 hymns, 63 epigrams, and fragments survive (Loeb Nos. 421, 129). The hymns are very learned and artificial in style; the epigrams are good (they are also in the Loeb Greek Anthology volumes). LYCOPHRON of Chalcis in Euboea was a contemporary of Callimachus in Alexandria where he became supervisor of the comedies included in the new library. He wrote a treatise on these and composed tragedies and other poetry. We possess Alexandra or Cassandra where-in Cassandra foretells the fortune of Troy and the besieging Greeks. This poem is a curiosity -- a showpiece of knowledge of obscure stories, names, and words. ARATUS of Soli in Cilicia, c. 315-245 B.C., was a didactic poet at the court of Antigonus Gonatas of Macedonia, where he wrote his famous Phaenomena (Appearances). He visited Antiochus I of Syria but returned to Macedonia. His work is an imitation of Eudoxus' prosework on astronomy, and cicero, germanicus Caesar, and Avieenius translated it into Latin; Cicero's survives in fragments only; the other versions are more complete, Avienius; being a paraphrase
3 editions published between 1955 and 2000 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
CALLIMACHUS of Cyrene, 3rd century B.C., became after 284 B.C. a teacher of 'grammar', and poetry at Alexandria where he was made a librarian in the "University' and prepared a catalogue of the books in its library. He died about the year 240. Of his large published output, only 6 hymns, 63 epigrams, and fragments survive (Loeb Nos. 421, 129). The hymns are very learned and artificial in style; the epigrams are good (they are also in the Loeb Greek Anthology volumes). LYCOPHRON of Chalcis in Euboea was a contemporary of Callimachus in Alexandria where he became supervisor of the comedies included in the new library. He wrote a treatise on these and composed tragedies and other poetry. We possess Alexandra or Cassandra where-in Cassandra foretells the fortune of Troy and the besieging Greeks. This poem is a curiosity -- a showpiece of knowledge of obscure stories, names, and words. ARATUS of Soli in Cilicia, c. 315-245 B.C., was a didactic poet at the court of Antigonus Gonatas of Macedonia, where he wrote his famous Phaenomena (Appearances). He visited Antiochus I of Syria but returned to Macedonia. His work is an imitation of Eudoxus' prosework on astronomy, and cicero, germanicus Caesar, and Avieenius translated it into Latin; Cicero's survives in fragments only; the other versions are more complete, Avienius; being a paraphrase
Callimachus: the hymns by
Callimachus(
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1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume provides a compact and readable edition of all six of Callimachus' hymns. An extensive introduction considers the literary and performance contexts of earlier hymns, the dating of Callimachus' hymns, literary influences on the hymns, the transmissions of the texts, and the poet's language, meter, and aural and visual effects. Each hymn is prefaced with a discussion of specific parallels and intertexts, and the hymn's relationship to cult, court, local geographies, and Panhellenic sanctuaries. There follows a Greek text with translation and a commentary designed to facilitate understanding of Callimachus' hymns as a unique literary experiment. -- from back cover
1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume provides a compact and readable edition of all six of Callimachus' hymns. An extensive introduction considers the literary and performance contexts of earlier hymns, the dating of Callimachus' hymns, literary influences on the hymns, the transmissions of the texts, and the poet's language, meter, and aural and visual effects. Each hymn is prefaced with a discussion of specific parallels and intertexts, and the hymn's relationship to cult, court, local geographies, and Panhellenic sanctuaries. There follows a Greek text with translation and a commentary designed to facilitate understanding of Callimachus' hymns as a unique literary experiment. -- from back cover
Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments. Hero and Leander by
Callimachus(
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3 editions published between 1973 and 2015 in English and held by 47 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fragments by Callimachus (third century BCE) include those from the Aetia, Greek aetiological stories; a book of Iambi; and the epic poem Hecale. Hero and Leander by Musaeus (fifth or sixth century CE) is a short epic poem
3 editions published between 1973 and 2015 in English and held by 47 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fragments by Callimachus (third century BCE) include those from the Aetia, Greek aetiological stories; a book of Iambi; and the epic poem Hecale. Hero and Leander by Musaeus (fifth or sixth century CE) is a short epic poem
Werke : griechisch und deutsch by
Callimachus(
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3 editions published in 2004 in German and held by 45 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 2004 in German and held by 45 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The works of Callimachus : translated into English verse. The hymns and epigrams from the Greek ; with the Coma Berenices
from the Latin of Catallus: with the original text, and notes carefully selected from former commentators, and additional
observations, by H.W. Tytler by
Callimachus(
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2 editions published in 1793 in English and held by 42 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1793 in English and held by 42 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Himnos, epigramas y fragmentos by
Callimachus(
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2 editions published in 1980 in Spanish and held by 38 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1980 in Spanish and held by 38 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hymnes de Callimaque by
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13 editions published between 1775 and 1930 in French and Greek, Ancient and held by 28 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
13 editions published between 1775 and 1930 in French and Greek, Ancient and held by 28 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hymnes de Callimaque : traduites en vers français, avec le texte grec en regard et des notes, etc. by
Callimachus(
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2 editions published in 1842 in French and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1842 in French and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hoi tou Kallimachou kyrenaiou Hymnoi te kai Epigrammata by
Callimachus(
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2 editions published in 1755 in Latin and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1755 in Latin and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni (cum suis scholiis Graecis) & Epigrammata. : Eiusdem poematium De coma Berenices, à Catullo versum.
Nicodemi Frischlini Balingensis interpretationes duae Hymnorum ... & Annotationes in Hymnos. Henrici Stephani partim Emendationes
partim Annotationes in quosdam Hymnorum locos. Eiusdem duplex interpretatio Hymni primi, carmine vtraque by
Callimachus(
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7 editions published in 1577 in Latin and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 1577 in Latin and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Posidippus of Pella approximately 310 B.C.-approximately 240 B.C.
- Bing, Peter Author
- Ovid 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Tress, Heather van 1966- Author
- Theocritus
- Leander (Greek mythology)
- Hero (Greek mythology)
- Medea consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)
- Jason (Mythological character)
- Argonauts (Greek mythology) in literature
Associated Subjects
Aesthetics, Ancient Aetia (Callimachus) Alexandra (Lycophron) Alexandrian Library Allusions in literature Argonautica (Apollonius, Rhodius) Argonauts (Greek mythology) in literature Art appreciation Bibliography Bibliography--Methodology Callimachus Cataloging Children in literature Egypt--Alexandria Epic poetry, Greek Epigrams, Greek Fables, Latin Gods, Greek Gods, Greek, in literature Greece Greek literature Greek literature--Bibliography--Methodology Greek poetry Greek poetry, Hellenistic Greek poetry, Hellenistic--Appreciation Hero (Greek mythology) Heroes in literature Hymns, Greek (Classical) Iambic poetry, Greek Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Intertextuality Jason--(Mythological character) Leander (Greek mythology) Libraries Library science Literature Medea,--consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) Metamorphoses (Ovid) Metamorphosis in literature Mythology, Classical, in literature Ovid, Posidippus,--of Pella, Rhetoric, Ancient Rome (Empire) Social sciences--Study and teaching (Elementary) Technique Theocritus Theseus,--King of Athens Youth in literature
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Alternative Names
Cal·límac
Calímaco
Call.
Callimachus Epicus
Callimaco
Callimakh
Callimaque
Kālīmākhūs al-Qūrīnī
Kallimach
Kallimachos
Kallimachos von Kyrene
Kallimachus
Kallimakh
Qūrīnī, Kālīmākhūs
Καλλίμαχος
קאלימאכוס
كاليماخوس
カリマコス
卡利马科斯
Languages
English
(87)
French (27)
Greek, Ancient (18)
German (17)
Latin (10)
Italian (8)
Greek, Modern (4)
Multiple languages (3)
Spanish (2)
French (27)
Greek, Ancient (18)
German (17)
Latin (10)
Italian (8)
Greek, Modern (4)
Multiple languages (3)
Spanish (2)