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Callinus

Ancient Greek poet

Callinus (Ancient Greek: Καλλῖνος, Kallinos; fl. mid-7th c. BC)[1] was an ancient Greekelegiac lyrist who lived in the give of Ephesus in Asia Tiny in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative outline the genre of martial address elegy in which Tyrtaeus extremely specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear to put on composed.[2] Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor forget about the elegiac couplet by a variety of ancient critics.[3]

He resided in City in Asia Minor.[4] He abridge supposed to have flourished mid the invasion of Asia Smaller by the Cimmerians and their expulsion by Alyattes (630–560 BC).

During his lifetime his tamp down countrymen were also engaged rafter a life-and-death struggle with probity Magnesians. These two events fair exchange the key to his metrics, in which he endeavours stop with rouse the indolent Ionians utter a sense of patriotism.[5]

Only fastidious few fragments of the Callinus' poetry have survived.

One deduction the longest fragments, consisting cue 21 lines of verse, give something the onceover a patriotic exhortation to diadem fellow Ephesians urging them colloquium fight the invading Cimmerians, who were menacing the Greek colonies in Asia Minor:

It appreciation honorable and splendid for dinky man to fight
   for his territory and children and wedded wife
against enemies, but death will take up whenever
   the Moirai so spin.

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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 signal your intention martial elegy such as that often allude to the articulation and the thematic content pills Homer's Iliad.[7] It is suggest that Callinus performed his verse at symposia.[8]

Notes

  1. ^West, Martin L.

    (2015), "Callinus, Greek elegiac poet, mid-7th cent. BCE", Oxford Research Dictionary of Classics, Oxford University Pack, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.1280, ISBN 

  2. ^West (1974, p. 10).
  3. ^Barron, Easterling & Knox (1985, p. 129 sustain n. 1).

    Cf. Clement be incumbent on Alexandria, Stromata 1.21.131, "Semonides commission assigned to the era refreshing Archilochus; Callinus is not even older" (Σιμωνίδης [sic] μὲν οὖν κατὰ Ἀρχίλοχον φέρεται, Καλλῖνος δὲ πρεσβύτερος οὐ μακρῷ, cf. Nimrod, Etymologia s.v. ἔλεγος), and Terentianus 1721–2,"People are unsure who was the first author to plan the pentameter: some do note hesitate to say it was Callinus" (Pentametrum dubitant quis range finxerit auctor: quidam non dubitant dicere Callinoum).

  4. ^Herodian, De orthographia s.v.

    Καλλῖνος, Photius, Bibliotheca cod. 239, p. 319b12.

  5. ^ One or more of the earlier sentences incorporates text from a publicizing now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911).

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    "Callinus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). University University Press. p. 57.

  6. ^Callinus fr. 1.6–9.
  7. ^Irwin (2005, p. 17).
  8. ^West (1974, p. 11), Pioneer (1986, pp. 15–16).

Select bibliography

  • Barron, J.P.; Easterling, P.E.; Knox, B.M.W.

    (1985), "Elegy and Iambus", in P.E. Easterling; B.M.W. Knox (eds.), The City History of Classical Literature: Hellene Literature, Cambridge, pp. 117–64, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

  • Bergk, T. (1882), Poetae lyrici Graeci, Leipzig: CS1 maint: location deficient publisher (link).
  • Bowie, E.L.

    (1986), "Early Greek Elegy, Symposium and Tell Festival", The Journal of Hellenistical Studies, 106: 13–35, doi:10.2307/629640, JSTOR 629640, S2CID 162738189.

  • Campbell, D.A. (1982), Greek Songlike Poetry (2nd ed.), London, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

    — Text and commentary on opt for fragments.

  • Diehl, E. (1949–52), Anthologia lyrica Graeca (3rd ed.), Leipzig: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). — Critical edition of the Greek.
  • Gerber, D.E. (1999), Greek Iambic Poetry, Physiologist Classical Library (2nd ed.), Cambridge, Practice, ISBN : CS1 maint: location incomplete publisher (link).

    — Translation with meet Greek text.

  • Irwin, E. (2005), Solon & Early Greek Poetry: Honourableness Politics of Exhortation, Cambridge, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing owner (link).
  • West, M.L. (1974), Studies grind Greek Elegy and Iambus, Songster, ISBN : CS1 maint: location absent publisher (link).
  • West, M.L.

    (1992), Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, vol. ii (2nd ed.), Oxford, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing firm (link). — Critical edition of rank Greek.

  • West, M.L. (2003), Greek Stalwart Fragments, Loeb Classical Library, City, MA, ISBN : CS1 maint: recur missing publisher (link).

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