Callimachus
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Callimachus was an ancient Greek poet, scholar, and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, he wrote o
Papyrus fragment from the Aetia of Callimachus
Callimachus is thought to have worked under the patronage of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. This bust of Ptolemy is held at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Callimachus wrote six hymns to gods of the Greek Pantheon, including one to Zeus. This statue of the god was found at Camirus and is housed at the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes.
19th-century artistic rendering of the Library of Alexandria, where Callimachus compiled the Pinakes
Theocritus
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Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
Theocritus's Idyll 13, Hylas and the Nymphs. P. Oxy. 694, 2nd century AD
Barent de Bakker: Illustration of Theocritus Idyll 1 Θύρσις ἢ ᾠδή, lines 12–14 (1779)