Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. Testimonia

The premier scholar—poet of the Hellenistic age.

Callimachus (ca. 303–ca. 235 BC), a proud and well—born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world center of literature, science, and scholarship; and wrote an estimated 800 volumes of poetry and prose on an astounding variety of subjects, including the Pinakes, a descriptive bibliography of the Lib...