Aetia
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Aetia is a major didactic and elegiac poem by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus that explores the origins and myths behind various customs, cities, and religious practices in the Greek world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aetia canonical | 2 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hellenistic poem
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didactic poem ⓘ elegiac poem ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Muses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Ptolemaic court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Callimachus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contentFocus |
explanations of religious festivals
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foundation legends of cities ⓘ local myths and aetiologies ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Ptolemaic Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateWritten | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic poetry
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elegiac poetry ⓘ |
| hasTitleMeaning | “Causes” or “Origins” in Greek ⓘ |
| influenced |
Catullus
NERFINISHED
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Ovid NERFINISHED ⓘ Propertius NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman elegy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Homeric epic
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earlier Greek elegy ⓘ local Greek cult traditions ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryForm | elegiac couplets ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Alexandrian poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
catalogue structure
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dialogic episodes ⓘ learned allusion ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
etiology of customs and rituals
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myths explaining origins of cities ⓘ religious practices in the Greek world ⓘ |
| meter | elegiac couplet ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
focus on obscure local traditions
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frame-narrative with Callimachus as speaker ⓘ scholarly and allusive style ⓘ |
| numberOfBooks | 4 ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| partiallyReconstructedBy | modern scholars from papyri ⓘ |
| period | Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfComposition | Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWorkOfAuthor |
Hymns (Callimachus)
NERFINISHED
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Iambi (Callimachus) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scholarlyDiscipline | Hellenistic philology ⓘ |
| structure | multi-book poem ⓘ |
| studiedIn | classical philology ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | fragmentary ⓘ |
| transmission |
later quotations
ⓘ
papyrus fragments ⓘ |
| workType | etiological poem ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.