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

Polish historian Callimachus tells that the leaders of the crusade would not listen, so Vlad II went back to Wallachia, but not before he had left Mircea II in command of an auxiliary unit of 4 000 Wallachian cavalrymen.

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?

" In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked.

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.

It is remarkable that Leto brought forth Artemis, the elder twin, without travail, as Callimachus wrote, as if she were merely revealing another manifestation of herself.

Callimachus, in his archly knowledgeable " Hymn III to Artemis ", mentions the deer that drew the chariot of Artemis:

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.

An alternate story told by the poet Pherecydes was followed in Callimachus ' poem " The Bathing of Pallas "; in it, Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked.

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 ".

In Callimachus ' Hymn to Zeus, Adrasteia lays the infant Zeus in a golden líknon, her goat suckles him and he is given honey.

Her father, Tanneguy Le Fèvre, died in 1672 and she moved to Paris, carrying with her part of an edition of Callimachus, which she afterwards published.

Per Callimachus, the residents, Lelegians, built an altar for Melikertes and started a ritual of a woman sacrificing her infant child when the town's need was dire.

The " Callimaque " manuscript ( c. 1939, the text being a French translation of a hymn by Hellenistic poet Callimachus ) is widely regarded as her masterpiece.

Elitist and erudite, claiming to " abhor all common things ," Callimachus is best known for his short poems and epigrams.

He was eclipsed only by the school's most admired exponent, Callimachus ; their learned character and intricate art would have a heavy influence on the Romans.

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, ( early 3rd century BC ), the first bibliographer and developer of the Pinakes, popularly considered to be the first library catalog.

Lyrics by his uncle, Simonides, and his rival, Pindar, were known in Athens and were sung at parties, they were parodied by Aristophanes and quoted by Plato, but no trace of Bacchylides ' work can be found until the Hellenistic age, when Callimachus began writing some commentaries on them.

Ovid in his Ibis mentions that Makelo, like the other Telchines, was killed with a thunderbolt ; according to Callimachus and Nonnus, however, Makelo was the only one to be spared.

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.

Thus ancient critics identified Sicelidas of Samos ( 1. 40 ) with Asclepiades the Samian, and Lycidas, " the goatherd of Cydonia ," may well be the poet Astacides, whom Callimachus calls " the Cretan, the goatherd.

The latter seems to be a reference to Smyrneis, whereas the sweet verses — apparently the slender, economical kind of verses on which Callimachus modelled his own poetry — appear to refer to Nanno.

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

The other epigram, modeled directly after Callimachus, is quoted by Aulus Gellius and may be paraphrased in prose as follows:

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.

Hesiod's poetry, especially the Catalogue of Women, Pindar, and Callimachus can all be seen in the work of Nonnus.

A similar metaphor is to be found in the centuries-later Hymn to Delos of Callimachus, in which Delos, a swimming island, visits various places in the Aegean, including Parthenia, " Maiden's Isle " ( Samos ), where it is entertained by the nymphs of Mycalessos.

Callimachus ' Hymn to Zeus, full of witty and learned detail on the god's infancy, is at pains to show by etymologies that the mythic figures and geographical features obtained their names, and thus their very identities, through their participation in Zeus ' early life.

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.

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.

Callimachus married the daughter of a Greek man called Euphrates who came from Syracuse.

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.