Hymns of Callimachus
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Hymns of Callimachus is a celebrated collection of learned, stylistically refined religious poems by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, dedicated to various Greek deities.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Callimachus' Hymns | 1 |
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hellenistic literature
ⓘ
ancient Greek religious poetry ⓘ poetry collection ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Library of Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Callimachus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Greek polytheism ⓘ |
| dateWritten | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| dedicatedToDeity |
Apollo
NERFINISHED
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Artemis NERFINISHED ⓘ Athena NERFINISHED ⓘ Delos NERFINISHED ⓘ Demeter NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hymn
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religious poetry ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cult foundations
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etiological myths ⓘ praise of gods ⓘ |
| influenced |
Catullus
NERFINISHED
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Ovid NERFINISHED ⓘ Propertius NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman religious poetry ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryForm |
cult hymn
ⓘ
narrative hymn ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Alexandrian poetry ⓘ |
| meter | hexameter ⓘ |
| mythologicalContent | retellings of traditional Greek myths ⓘ |
| numberOfPoems | 6 ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| poeticTechnique |
interplay of cult and myth
ⓘ
learned allusion to earlier epic and lyric poetry ⓘ |
| religiousFunction | praise and invocation of deities ⓘ |
| scholarlyReputation | canonical example of Hellenistic learned poetry ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Hellenistic poetry studies
ⓘ
classical philology ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
allusive
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highly refined ⓘ learned ⓘ mythologically erudite ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | extant ⓘ |
| textualTransmission | manuscript tradition ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Callimachus' Hymns