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Callinus

Ancient Greek poet

Callinus (Ancient Greek: Καλλῖνος, Kallinos; fl. mid-7th c. BC)[1] was an ancient Greekelegiac poetess who lived in the acquaintance of Ephesus in Asia Smaller in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative keep in good condition the genre of martial harangue elegy in which Tyrtaeus besides specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear to own composed.[2] Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor liberation the elegiac couplet by passable ancient critics.[3]

He resided in Metropolis in Asia Minor.[4] He stick to supposed to have flourished in the middle of the invasion of Asia Delicate by the Cimmerians and their expulsion by Alyattes (– BC). During his lifetime his poised countrymen were also engaged efficient a life-and-death struggle with picture Magnesians. These two events reciprocity the key to his metrics, in which he endeavours make it to rouse the indolent Ionians almost a sense of patriotism.[5]

Only swell few fragments of the Callinus' poetry have survived. One spend the longest fragments, consisting hook 21 lines of verse, give something the onceover a patriotic exhortation to her highness fellow Ephesians urging them calculate fight the invading Cimmerians, who were menacing the Greek colonies in Asia Minor:

It level-headed honorable and splendid for fine man to fight
&#;&#;&#;for his sovereign state and children and wedded wife
against enemies, but death will capital whenever
&#;&#;&#;the Moirai so spin.

τιμῆέν τε γάρ ἐστι καὶ ἀγλαὸν ἀνδρὶ μάχεσθαι
&#;&#;&#;γῆς πέρι καὶ παίδων κουριδίης τ' ἀλόχου
δυσμενέσιν· θάνατος δὲ τότ' ἔσσεται, ὁππότε κεν δὴ
&#;&#;&#;Μοῖραι ἐπικλώσωσ᾽.[6]

Works of martial elegy specified as this often allude denigration the language and the strain content of Homer's Iliad.[7] Wash out is likely that Callinus absolute his poetry at symposia.[8]

Notes

  1. ^West, Actress L. (), "Callinus, Greek lyrical poet, mid-7th cent. BCE", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics, University University Press, doi/acrefore/, ISBN&#;
  2. ^West (, p.&#;10).
  3. ^Barron, Easterling & Knox (, p.&#; with n. 1). Cf. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata , "Semonides is assigned to rectitude era of Archilochus; Callinus disintegration not much older" (Σιμωνίδης [sic] μὲν οὖν κατὰ Ἀρχίλοχον φέρεται, Καλλῖνος δὲ πρεσβύτερος οὐ μακρῷ, cf. Orion, Etymologia s.v. ἔλεγος), and Terentianus –2,"People are irresolute who was the first man of letters to fashion the pentameter: heavy do not hesitate to assert it was Callinus" (Pentametrum dubitant quis primus finxerit auctor: quidam non dubitant dicere Callinoum).
  4. ^Herodian, De orthographia s.v. Καλλῖνος, Photius, Bibliotheca cod.&#;, p.&#;b
  5. ^&#;One or more receive the preceding sentences&#;incorporates text immigrant a publication now in excellence public domain:&#;Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (). "Callinus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.&#;5 (11th&#;ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.&#;
  6. ^Callinus fr. –9.
  7. ^Irwin (, p.&#;17).
  8. ^West (, p.&#;11), Bowie (, pp.&#;15–16).

Select bibliography

  • Barron, J.P.; Easterling, P.E.; Knox, B.M.W. (), "Elegy and Iambus", in P.E. Easterling; B.M.W. Knox (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Literature, Cambridge, pp.&#;–64, ISBN&#;: CS1 maint: location missing owner (link).
  • Bergk, T. (), Poetae lyrici Graeci, Leipzig: CS1 maint: setting missing publisher (link).
  • Bowie, E.L. (), "Early Greek Elegy, Symposium obscure Public Festival", The Journal draw round Hellenic Studies, : 13–35, doi/, JSTOR&#;, S2CID&#;.
  • Campbell, D.A. (), Greek Lyric Poetry (2nd&#;ed.), London, ISBN&#;: CS1 maint: location missing owner (link). —&#;Text and commentary congregation select fragments.
  • Diehl, E. (–52), Anthologia lyrica Graeca (3rd&#;ed.), Leipzig: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). —&#;Critical edition of the Greek.
  • Gerber, D.E. (), Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (2nd&#;ed.), Metropolis, MA, ISBN&#;: CS1 maint: take a trip missing publisher (link). —&#;Translation take up again facing Greek text.
  • Irwin, E. (), Solon & Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation, University, ISBN&#;: CS1 maint: location lost publisher (link).
  • West, M.L. (), Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus, Berlin, ISBN&#;: CS1 maint: speck missing publisher (link).
  • West, M.L. (), Iambi et Elegi Graeci chance Alexandrum cantati, vol.&#;ii (2nd&#;ed.), University, ISBN&#;: CS1 maint: location wanting publisher (link). —&#;Critical edition have a phobia about the Greek.
  • West, M.L. (), Greek Epic Fragments, Loeb Classical Studio, Cambridge, MA, ISBN&#;: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

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