Callimachus

[kuh-lim-uh-kuhs]

noun

1. c310–c240 b.c., Greek poet, grammarian, and critic.

Callimachus

/ kəˈlɪməkəs /

noun

1. late 5th century _bc , Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital

2. ?305–?240 _bc , Greek poet of the Alexandrian School; author of hymns and epigrams

Example Sentences

“But where Ovid treats his characters with mild condescension and some irony, Mr. Calasso treats them with the kind of respect believing pagan writers like Homer and Callimachus might have given them. Also unlike Ovid, Mr. Calasso often provides several different versions of a story, so that his readers can see the various potential meanings a myth can have.”

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Depending on how the text was copied, the twelve thousand verses of Homer’s Odyssey filled five to ten scrolls of normal length; truly monumental works, such as Callimachus’s Pinakes, were well over a hundred scrolls long.

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According to Alberto Manguel’s book “A History of Reading,” Callimachus may have been the first to organize a catalog alphabetically.

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It was overseen by the poet and scholar Callimachus, who understood that users would need to easily find things, and so he cataloged it.

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Among those he brought to Alexandria was Callimachus who ‘knew more about ancient Greek literature than anybody before or since’, and changed the course of Western poetry by breaking with the literary culture amassed at the library with dense, erudite and cryptic poems.

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