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.

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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
Artemis NERFINISHED
Athena NERFINISHED
Delos NERFINISHED
Demeter NERFINISHED
Zeus NERFINISHED
genre hymn
religious poetry
hasTheme cult foundations
etiological myths
praise of gods
influenced Catullus NERFINISHED
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
highly refined
learned
mythologically erudite
survivalStatus extant
textualTransmission manuscript tradition

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Hellenistic poetry hasNotableWork Hymns of Callimachus
Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis workInCollection Hymns of Callimachus
this entity surface form: Callimachus' Hymns