Callimachus

E113749

Hellenistic poet ancient Greek poet ancient Greek scholar librarian person poet scholar

Callimachus was a Hellenistic Greek poet and scholar of the Library of Alexandria, renowned for his learned, refined verse and influential literary criticism.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Callimachus canonical	11
Callimachus of Cyrene	4

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Hellenistic poet ⓘ ancient Greek poet ⓘ ancient Greek scholar ⓘ librarian ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ
associatedWith	Alexandrian scholarship ⓘ Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ surface form: Ptolemaic court
citizenship	Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ
contributedTo	Pinakes ⓘ
culture	Hellenistic Greek ⓘ
employer	Library of Alexandria ⓘ
era	Hellenistic period ⓘ
ethnicity	Greek ⓘ
floruit	3rd century BCE ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
influenced	Catullus ⓘ Ovid ⓘ Propertius ⓘ Roman elegiac poets ⓘ
knownFor	influence on later Hellenistic and Roman poetry ⓘ learned and refined verse ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryGenre	elegy ⓘ epigram ⓘ epyllion ⓘ hymn ⓘ
literarySchool	Hellenistic poetry ⓘ surface form: Alexandrian school of poetry
movement	Hellenistic poetry ⓘ
name	Callimachus self-link ⓘ
notableWork	Aetia ⓘ Epigrams ⓘ Hecale ⓘ Hymns ⓘ Alcaic stanza ⓘ surface form: Iambi
occupation	librarian ⓘ literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ
philosophicalView	preference for short, refined poems over long epics ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Alexandria ⓘ
residence	Alexandria ⓘ
role	cataloguer of books at the Library of Alexandria ⓘ
style	erudite and allusive poetry ⓘ
workLocation	Alexandria ⓘ Library of Alexandria ⓘ

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Leto → authorMentionedBy → Callimachus ⓘ

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World → documentedBy → Callimachus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Callimachus of Cyrene

Library of Alexandria → notableScholar → Callimachus ⓘ

Library of Alexandria → cataloguedBy → Callimachus ⓘ

Hellenistic poetry → hasNotableAuthor → Callimachus ⓘ

Callimachus → name → Callimachus self-link ⓘ

Asteria → sourceText → Callimachus ⓘ

Apollonius of Rhodes → influencedBy → Callimachus ⓘ

Catullus → influencedBy → Callimachus ⓘ

Propertius → influencedBy → Callimachus ⓘ

Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis → author → Callimachus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Callimachus of Cyrene

Pinakes → compiledBy → Callimachus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Callimachus of Cyrene

Pinakes → creator → Callimachus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Callimachus of Cyrene

Mouseion → notableScholar → Callimachus ⓘ

subject surface form: Mouseion of Alexandria

Telchines → sourceMention → Callimachus ⓘ