He also had a sister called Megatime but very little is known about her: she married a Cyrenaean man called Stasenorus or Stasenor to whom she bore a son, Callimachus ( so called " the Younger " as to distinguish him from his maternal uncle ), who also became a poet, author of " The Island ".

Cyrene was the birthplace of Eratosthenes and there are a number of philosophers associated with the city including Aristippus, the founder of the School of Cyrene, and his successor daughter Arete, Callimachus, Carneades, Ptolemais of Cyrene, and Synesius, a bishop of Ptolemais in the 4th century AD.

The Roman writer Vitruvius credited the invention of the Corinthian order to Callimachus, a Greek sculptor of the 5th century BCE.

Much later, the Roman writer Vitruvius ( c. 75 BCE – c. 15 BCE ) related that the Corinthian order had been invented by Callimachus, a Greek architect and sculptor who was inspired by the sight of a votive basket that had been left on the grave of a young girl.

Still another variant of the narrative is found in Callimachus and the 5th century AD Greek writer Nonnus.

Ancient Greek literary sources — such as Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, and Callimachus — also place Charon on the Acheron.

Catullus was influenced by both archaic and Hellenistic Greek verse and belonged to a group of Roman poets called the Neoteroi (" newer poets "), who spurned epic poetry, following the lead of Callimachus, and instead composed brief highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres.

Callimachus (, Kallimachos ; 310 / 305 – 240 BC ) was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya.

Callimachus was of Libyan Greek origin.

He was born and raised in Cyrene, as member of a distinguished family, his parents being Mesatme ( or Mesatma ) and Battus, supposed descendant of the first Greek king of Cyrene, Battus I, through whom Callimachus claimed to be a descendant of the Battiad dynasty, the Libyan Greek monarchs that ruled Cyrenaica for eight generations and the first Greek Royal family to have reigned in Africa.

This incident inspired the court poet Callimachus of Cyrene to write a poem entitled Βερενίκης πλόκαμος ( Greek " Berenice's braid ").

Fifth-century classicism can be studied through Roman copies of Greek sculptures by Phidias, Polyclitus, Myron and Callimachus.

The Greek poet Callimachus was the first to state that these deep fried dough balls were soaked in honey and then served to the winners as " honey tokens ".

The first written document ( supported by Stephanus of Byzantium ) describing the small Canis Melitaeus was given by the Greek writer Callimachus, around 350 BC.

A famous descendant of Battus and thus one of the Battiadae was Callimachus, the Greek poet and the best known member of the Neoteroi.

Virgil used other Greek writers as models and sources, some for technical information, including the Hellenistic poet Aratus for astronomy and meteorology, Nicander for information about snakes, the philosopher Aristotle for zoology, and Aristotle's student Theophrastus for botany, and others, such as the Hellenistic poet Callimachus for poetic and stylistic considerations.

Acontius (), was in Greek mythology a beautiful youth of the island of Ceos, the hero of a love-story told by Callimachus in a poem now lost, which forms the subject of two of Ovid's Heroides ( xx, xxi ).

The poem Coma Berenices by Greek poet Callimachus ( lost, but known in a Latin translation or paraphrase by Catullus ), apparently refers to her killing of Demetrius: " Let me remind you how stout-hearted you were even as a young girl: have you forgotten the brave deed by which you gained a royal marriage?

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

Most notably, Callimachus, created what is considered to be the first subject catalogue of the library holdings, called the pinakes which contained 120 scrolls arranged into ten subject classes.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

Callimachus then tells how Artemis visited Pan, the god of the forest, who gave her seven bitches and six dogs.

In addition, in overall charge, was the War-Archon ( polemarch ), Callimachus, who had been elected by the whole citizen body.

However, according to the architectural historian Vitruvius, the column was created by the sculptor Callimachus, probably an Athenian, who drew acanthus leaves growing around a votive basket.

The logical inconsistency of a Cretan asserting all Cretans are always liars may not have occurred to Epimenides, nor to Callimachus, who both used the phrase to emphasize their point, without irony.

An early Italian humanist who came to Poland in the mid-15th century was Filip Callimachus.

However, in February 1468, Platina was again imprisoned on the charge of having participated in a conspiracy against the Pope, and was tortured along with other abbreviators, such as Filip Callimachus, who fled to Poland in 1478, all of whom had been accused of pagan views.

He was named after his grandfather, an " elder " Callimachus, who was highly regarded by the Cyrenaean citizens and had served as a general.

Due to Callimachus ' strong stance against the epic, he and his younger student Apollonius of Rhodes, who favored epic and wrote the Argonautica, had a long and bitter feud, trading barbed comments, insults, and ad hominem attacks for over thirty years.

Mimnermus in turn exerted a strong influence on Hellenistic poets such as Callimachus and thus also on Roman poets such as Propertius, who even preferred him to Homer for his eloquence on love themes ( see Comments by other poets below ).

Outstanding literary figures of the Hellenistic period were Menander, the chief representative of a newer type of comedy ; the poets Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius Rhodius, author of the Argonautica ; and Polybius, who wrote a detailed history of the Mediterranean world.

Callimachus talked of a myth where Ino's son Melikertes washed up dead in Tenedos after being thrown into the sea by his mother, who killed herself too.

Horace, however, says that he would have to " endure much " and " stop up his ears " if he had to listen to " Callimachus ... to please the sensitive stock of poets "; Postgate and others see this as a veiled attack on Propertius, who considered himself the Roman heir to Callimachus.

Callimachus, who lived at the same time as Theocritus, worked his entire adult life at Alexandria and compiled a prose treatise entitled the Pinakes which catalogued the great works held in the library.

One of the most influential elegiac writers was Philitas ' rival Callimachus, who had an enormous impact on Roman poets, both elegists and non-elegists alike.

Callimachus tells how Artemis spent her girlhood seeking out the things that she would need to be a huntress, how she obtained her bow and arrows from the isle of Lipara, where Hephaestus and the Cyclops worked.

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

Surviving from the 3rd century BC is a collection of six literary hymns () by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus.

The Korybantes, also known as the Curetes, whom the scholiast on Callimachus calls her brothers, also watched over the child ; they kept Cronus from hearing him cry by beating their swords on their shields, drowning out the sound.

Otherwise they differ little from work done by other poets, such as Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius.

A cryptic comment by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus ( see Comments by other poets below ) also seems to refer to those two books, commending one for " sweetness " and destinguishing it from " the great lady ".

These include the Athena Parthenos, a magnificent miniature copy of the great image that Phidias created for the Parthenon in Athens ; a copy of Myron's Athena from the group of Athena and Marsyas ; a copy of Polyclitus's magnificent Diadumenos ; and a copy of the four Maenad reliefs by Callimachus.

They all, particularly Propertius, drew influence from Callimachus, and they also clearly read each other and responded to each other's works.

This story most notably appears in the second poem of Ovid's Heroides, a book of epistolary poems from mythological women to their respective men, and it also appears in the Aitia of Callimachus.

The late republic saw the emergence of Neoteric Poets, notably Catullusrich young men from the Italian provinces, conscious of metropolitan sophistication, and looking to the scholarly Alexandrian poet Callimachus for inspiration.

The most famous of these were the Alexandrian Greeks Callimachus, the author of many epigrams, and Theocritus, a bucolic poet from Sicily.

After both Callimachus and Drusiana are resurrected, Drusiana, feeling sorry for the other aggressor involved in the conspiracy to molest her dead body, is granted the ability to raise Fortunatus back from the dead against the wishes of Callimachus.

We still possess his Historiae Mirabiles (" Collection of Wonderful Tales "), a paradoxographical work chiefly extracted from the Θαυμασια Ακουσματα attributed to Aristotle and the Θαυμασια of Callimachus.

Under his name, two books of love stories, in the form of letters, are extant ; the subjects are borrowed from the erotic elegies of such Alexandrian writers as Callimachus, and the language is a patchwork of phrases from Plato, Lucian, Alciphron and others.

Berenice's name ( which means " bringer of victory ") comes from a poem by Callimachus.