callinus

Proper noun

An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th century Ancient Greek poet from Ephesus,

Origin

From Ancient Greek Καλλῖνος (Kallinos).

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Elegiac poets (4): Callinus, Mimnermus, Philetas, Callimachus.
The date of the Cimmerian invasion is fixed by the concurrent testimony of the contemporary poets Archilochus and Callinus, of the late chronologists Eusebius, &c., and of the inscriptions of the Assyrian king Esar-haddon.
The Theban cycle is represented by the Thebaid (which Callinus, who was of the 7th century, ascribed to Homer) and the Epigoni.
From very early times the Homeric poems found a home and admirers there; and to Ephesus belong the earliest elegiac poems of Greece, the war songs of Callinus, who flourished in the 7th century B.C. and was the model of Tyrtaeus.

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