Callinus
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Callinus (, Kallinos; fl. mid-7th c. BC) was an ancient Greek elegiac poet who lived in the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative of the genre of martial exhortation elegy in which Tyrtaeus also specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear to have composed. Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor of the elegiac couplet by some ancient critics.
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Callinus was a male poet who wrote in Ancient Greek. His name in his native language was Καλλῖνος. He was a citizen of Greece and Ephesus. His significant place and place of birth was Ephesus.
He was born in 680 BCE and died in 700 BCE. His notable work is Greek Elegy and Iambus. He is described by the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and Pauly–Wissowa.
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- Greek Elegy and Iambus
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- male
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- Ephesus
- Place of birth
- Ephesus
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- Ancient Greek
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- Καλλῖνος
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- Pauly–Wissowa
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- Ancient Greek
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- Ephesus
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Callinus (, Kallinos; fl. mid-7th c. BC) was an ancient Greek elegiac poet who lived in the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative of the genre of martial exhortation elegy in which Tyrtaeus also specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear to have composed. Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor of the elegiac couplet by some ancient critics.
He resided in Ephesus in Asia Minor. He is supposed to have flourished between the invasion of Asia Minor by the Cimmerians and their expulsion by Alyattes (630–560 BC). During his lifetime his own countrymen were also engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the Magnesians. These two events give the key to his poetry, in which he endeavours to rouse the indolent Ionians to a sense of patriotism.
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