Callimachus

Callimachus (ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC) was a Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Cyrene and a descendant of the illustrious house of the Battiadae, whence he was sometimes called Battiades (e.g., in Catullus's 65th poem).

Bibliography

Callimachus' works are edited in the magisterial edition of R. Pfeiffer, Vol. I Fragmenta, Oxford 1949 (repr. 1965); Vol. II Hymni et epigrammata, Oxford 1953.

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A more recent edition of the poems in English is Frank Nisetich's Poems of Callimachus (Oxford: OUP, 2001) (ISBN 0198147600)

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