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Callimachus
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-305–-239 · 3rd-century BC Greek poet, scholar and librarian

Also known as: Kallimachos, Battiades, Callimachus of Cyrene, Kallimachos of Kyrene, Kallimachos von Kyrene, Kallimachus

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Known works

  • Poems of Callimachus (1931)
  • Callimachus (1949)
  • Aetia, Iambi, lyric poems, Hecale, minor epic and elegiac poems, and other fragments (1975)
  • Werke (2004)
  • Aitia II