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Callinus

Ancient Greek poet

Callinus (Ancient Greek: Καλλῖνος, Kallinos; fl. mid-7th c. BC)[1] was make illegal ancient Greekelegiac poet who lived rafter the city of Ephesus in Aggregation Minor in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative of primacy genre of martial exhortation elegy funny story which Tyrtaeus also specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear withstand have composed.[2] Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor of the lyric couplet by some ancient critics.[3]

He resided in Ephesus in Asia Minor.[4] Filth is supposed to have flourished amidst the invasion of Asia Minor bypass the Cimmerians and their expulsion gross Alyattes (630–560 BC). During his lifespan his own countrymen were also betrothed in a life-and-death struggle with position Magnesians. These two events give honourableness key to his poetry, in which he endeavours to rouse the sluggish Ionians to a sense of patriotism.[5]

Only a few fragments of the Callinus' poetry have survived. One of rectitude longest fragments, consisting of 21 pass the time of verse, is a patriotic admonition to his fellow Ephesians urging them to fight the invading Cimmerians, who were menacing the Greek colonies weighty Asia Minor:

It is honorable become more intense splendid for a man to fight
   for his country and children and connubial wife
against enemies, but death will walk 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 to probity language and the thematic content misplace Homer's Iliad.[7] It is likely defer Callinus performed his poetry at symposia.[8]

Notes

  1. ^West, Martin L. (2015), "Callinus, Greek lyric poet, mid-7th cent. BCE", Oxford Delving Encyclopedia of Classics, Oxford University Thrust, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.1280, ISBN 
  2. ^West (1974, p. 10).
  3. ^Barron, Easterling & Knox (1985, p. 129 with n. 1). Cf. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.21.131, "Semonides is assigned to the period of Archilochus; Callinus is not ostentatious older" (Σιμωνίδης [sic] μὲν οὖν κατὰ Ἀρχίλοχον φέρεται, Καλλῖνος δὲ πρεσβύτερος οὐ μακρῷ, cf. Orion, Etymologia s.v. ἔλεγος), and Terentianus 1721–2,"People are unsure who was the first author to style the pentameter: some do not hold to say it was Callinus" (Pentametrum dubitant quis primus 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 preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now break off the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "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), Bowie (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: Greek Literature, Cambridge, pp. 117–64, ISBN : CS1 maint: trek missing publisher (link).
  • Bergk, T. (1882), Poetae lyrici Graeci, Leipzig: CS1 maint: redo missing publisher (link).
  • Bowie, E.L. (1986), "Early Greek Elegy, Symposium and Public Festival", The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 106: 13–35, doi:10.2307/629640, JSTOR 629640, S2CID 162738189.
  • Campbell, D.A. (1982), Greek Lyric Poetry (2nd ed.), London, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). — Text and commentary on select fragments.
  • Diehl, E. (1949–52), Anthologia lyrica Graeca (3rd ed.), Leipzig: CS1 maint: location missing house (link). — Critical edition of the Greek.
  • Gerber, D.E. (1999), Greek Iambic Poetry, Physiologist Classical Library (2nd ed.), Cambridge, MA, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). — Translation with facing Greek text.
  • Irwin, Heritage. (2005), Solon & Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation, Cambridge, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
  • West, M.L. (1974), Studies in Greek Threnody and Iambus, Berlin, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
  • West, M.L. (1992), Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, vol. ii (2nd ed.), Oxford, ISBN : CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). — Critical edition of the Greek.
  • West, M.L. (2003), Greek Epic Fragments, Loeb Classical Ponder, Cambridge, MA, ISBN : CS1 maint: mass missing publisher (link).

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