CALLINUS

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CALLINUS of

Ephesus

, the oldest of the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

elegiac poets and the creator of the political and warlike elegy. He is supposed to have flourished between the invasion of

Asia

ASIA

Minor

by the

Cimmerii

CIMMERII

and their expulsion by Alyattes (63o56o B.O. During his lifetime his own countrymen were also engaged in a

life

LIFE

-anddeath struggle with the Magnesians. These two events give the key to his poetry, in which he endeavours to rouse the indolent
Ionians to a sense of patriotism. Only scanty fragments of his poems remain; the longest of these (preserved in Stobaeus, Florilegium, li. 19) has even been ascribed to Tyrtaeus.
Edition of the fragments by N. Bach (1831), and in Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882). On the date of Callinus, see the histories of

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

literature by Mare and

Muller

; G. H. Bode, Geschichte der helleniscken Dichtkunst, ii. pt. i. (1838); and G. Geiger, De Callini Aetate (1877), who places him earlier, about 642.

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