person
Callimachus
also: Battiades
Alexandrian poet and scholar, son of Battus (Battiades); 'strong in art though not in genius,' the master of learned, polished elegy.
Reading notes
- The Loves §1.15 son of Battus
Callimachus, Alexandrian master of polished elegy, 'strong in art though not in genius.'
- The Art of Love §3.17 Callimachus
The great Alexandrian poet-scholar, model of learned, polished verse.
- Ibis §2 son of Battus
Callimachus of Cyrene ('son of Battus'), the Alexandrian poet whose lost Ibis is Ovid's model for this riddling curse-poem.
- The Cure for Love §12 Callimachus
The Alexandrian poet and master of polished short forms; named as a model of refined, non-epic verse.
- Sorrows §2.1 son of Battus
Callimachus of Cyrene ('Battiades'), the learned Alexandrian poet who confessed his loves in verse.