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Callinus logo #21000 Callinus (Καλλῖνος, Kallinos) 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 hi...
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Callinus logo #21003Greek elegiac poet, the few surviving fragments of whose work reflect the troubled period when Asia Minor was invaded by the Cimmerians, a race ...
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Callinus

Callinus logo #21217Callinus, of Ephesus was the earliest Greek elegiac poet. He lived about 730 BC. Only a few fragments of his elegies are extant.
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