Английская Википедия:Callinus
Шаблон:Short description Callinus (Шаблон:Lang-grc, Kallinos; fl. mid-7th c. BC)[1] 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.[2] Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor of the elegiac couplet by some ancient critics.[3]
He resided in Ephesus in Asia Minor.[4] 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.[5]
Only a few fragments of the Callinus' poetry have survived. One of the longest fragments, consisting of 21 lines of verse, is a patriotic exhortation to his fellow Ephesians urging them to fight the invading Cimmerians, who were menacing the Greek colonies in Asia Minor:
It is honorable and splendid for a man to fight |
Works of martial elegy such as this often allude to the language and the thematic content of Homer's Iliad.[7] It is likely that Callinus performed his poetry at symposia.[8]
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- ↑ Шаблон:Harvtxt.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvtxt. Cf. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.21.131, "Semonides is assigned to the era of Archilochus; Callinus is not much older" (Шаблон:Lang, cf. Orion, Etymologia s.v. Шаблон:Lang), and Terentianus 1721–2,"People are unsure who was the first author to fashion the pentameter: some do not hesitate to say it was Callinus" (Pentametrum dubitant quis primus finxerit auctor: quidam non dubitant dicere Callinoum).
- ↑ Herodian, De orthographia s.v. Шаблон:Lang, Photius, Bibliotheca cod. 239, p. 319b12.
- ↑ Шаблон:EB1911
- ↑ Callinus fr. 1.6–9.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvtxt.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvtxt, Шаблон:Harvtxt.