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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 57 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALLINUS of See also:

Ephesus, the See also:oldest of the See also:Greek elegiac poets and the creator of the See also:political and warlike See also:elegy. He is supposed to have flourished between the invasion of See also:Asia See also:Minor by the See also:Cimmerii and their See also:expulsion by See also:Alyattes (63o–56o B.O. During his lifetime his own countrymen were also engaged in a See also:life-anddeath struggle with the Magnesians. These two events give the See also:key to his See also:poetry, in which he endeavours to rouse the indolent See also:Ionians to a sense of patriotism. Only scanty fragments of his poems remain; the longest of these (preserved in See also:Stobaeus, Florilegium, li. 19) has even been ascribed to See also:Tyrtaeus. Edition of the fragments by N. See also:Bach (1831), and in See also:Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882). On the date of Callinus, see the histories of Greek literature by See also:Mare and See also:Muller; G. H. See also:Bode, Geschichte der helleniscken Dichtkunst, ii. pt. i. (1838); and G.

Geiger, De Callini Aetate (1877), who places him earlier, about 642.

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