Callinus
Callinus (in ancient Greek / is a Greek poet of the late seventh century BC. AD , considered the father of elegiac poetry.
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Biography
His life is very poorly known. We know he is a native of Ephesus. Pausanias places its peak in 690 BC. AD - if Pausanias is right, it is the first known mention of the name of Homer.
According to Strabo , one of the poems (lost) Callinus mention of taking Sardis by the Cimmerians , which can be dated to 652 BC. AD according to the records of Ashurbanipal.
Work
His work survives only in quotations from Stobaeus and Strabo. Only one of them, preserved in Stobaeus, has a significant length - 21 to . Yet she is interrupted by a gap is not known whether they are two separate fragments of a single fragment or mutilated.
As in Tyrtaeus , his contemporary poetry Callinus is warlike and patriotic. This is not to revive a mythical past, as in the epic , but to mention this: the attacks "terrible army of Cimmerian "against the cities of Ionia. In his longest piece, the poet appeals to young people by calling them to fight, noting that "it is honorable for a brave, fight enemies, for his life for his children, his lawful wife. Death will come the day decided by the Fates . "
Notes
- Pausanias , Description of Greece References
- (In) John A. Scott, "The Callinus of Pausanias IX. 9. 5 ", Classical Philology, Vol. 17, No. 4 (October 1922), p. 358-360.
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