Callimachus

American  

[kuh-lim-uh-kuhs] / kəˈlɪm ə kəs /

noun

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

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Callimachus British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

The assignment was a two-page essay, in Greek, on any epigram of Callimachus that we chose.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

In the strict acceptation of the term, scarcely any Greek elegy has descended to us entire, except perhaps a few lines by Callimachus on the death of Heraclitus.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

B.C., and was carried to extreme perfection by Callimachus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Callimachus lived at Alexandria in the reigns of Ptolemy Philadelphus and Ptolemy Euergetes, and was chief librarian of the famous library of Alexandria from about B.C.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

For Roman elegy is mainly amatory or sentimental; and its masters imitated, as a rule, not the early Greek elegists, not Tyrtaeus or Theognis, but the later Alexandrian elegists, such as Callimachus or Philetas.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various