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Callimachus was an Alexandrine grammarian and poet. He was a native of Cyrene in Africa. He lived at Alexandria where was a cataloguer of the famous library of Alexandria, from about 260 B.C. until his death about 240 B.C. Among his students were Arostophanes of Byzantium and Apollonius Rhodius mostrar mais Callimachus wrote numerous works on a variety of subjects, but of these only his poems exist, which are characterized by elegance and learning. In his day he was widely admired and later served as a model for Catullus and the Roman elegiac poets, especially Ovid. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Callimachus

Callimachus : Hecale (1990) 22 exemplares
Epigrammi (1990) 21 exemplares
Aetia (1975) 15 exemplares
Callimachus (1949) 14 exemplares
Himnos, epigramas y fragmentos (1980) 10 exemplares
Inni Epigrammi Frammenti (1996) 9 exemplares
Callimaco (1996) 4 exemplares
Epigramas (2005) 4 exemplares
Works 4 exemplares
Inni. Epigrammi. Ecale (1996) 3 exemplares
Callimaque 3 exemplares
Callimachus, Hymn to Delos (1984) 2 exemplares
Kallimakhosz himnuszai (1976) 2 exemplares
Giambi 1 exemplar
hymnus in Dianam 1 exemplar
Carmina 1 exemplar
Himnos 1 exemplar
Aitia: Libri Primo e Secondo (1996) 1 exemplar
The Poems Of Callimachus (2010) 1 exemplar
Inni 1 exemplar
Hymnus in Dianam 1 exemplar
Works 1 exemplar
Reliquiae omnes 1 exemplar
The Hymns of Callimachus (2013) 1 exemplar
Hymns (Greek) 1 exemplar
Himnos (2019) 1 exemplar

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Nome canónico
Callimachus
Nome legal
Callimachos
Outros nomes
Καλλίμαχος
Data de nascimento
310/305 BC
Data de falecimento
240 BC
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Ptolemaic Egypt
País (no mapa)
Egypt
Locais de residência
Cyrene, Libya
Alexandria, Egypt
Athens, Greece
Ocupações
Library of Alexandria
poet
Relações
Apollonius Rhodius (student)

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Bought in high school
 
Assinalado
ajapt | Dec 30, 2018 |
Λυκόφρων descries a mind that is intense and clever like that of a wolf. Lycophron's "Alexandra" is so astute as to have aroused the invidia of Byzantine critics.
Καλλίμαχος, whose name reads 'fighting nobly', was responsible for the cataloging of that famous Library of Alexandria which was a bulwark against obscurantists.
Ἄρατος ὁ Σολεύς means the desirable (or wanted) man from Soli. Aratus' "Phaenomena" was translated by Marcus Tullius Cicero "in his early youth."… (mais)
 
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LochItes | 1 outra crítica | Dec 5, 2009 |
These two Callimachus Loebs date from 1958, and Loeb have no plans to publish new editions. That is disgraceful!
 
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FuficiusFango | 1 outra crítica | May 16, 2009 |
Typical postgrad text. Nothing about it sticks in my mind, tho.
 
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FuficiusFango | May 16, 2009 |

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Obras
58
Also by
7
Membros
523
Popularidade
#47,534
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
7
ISBN
44
Línguas
6
Marcado como favorito
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