The phrase " Cretans, always liars " was quoted by the poet Callimachus in his Hymn to Zeus, with the same theological intent as Epimenides:

Callimachus ' Hymn to Demeter 6. 65ff.

The Meliae were nurses of the infant Zeus in the Cretan cave of Dikte, according to Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus.

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.

Callimachus ’ Hymn to Delos 1 – 99: Introduction and Commentary ( Dissertation, U. Michigan, 1981 ).

* Bulloch, A. W. Callimachus: The Fifth Hymn ( CUP, 1985 ).

Callimachus: Hymn to Demeter ( CUP, 1984 ).

* McLennan, G. R. Callimachus: Hymn to Zeus ( Edizioni dell ' Ateneo & Bizzarri, 1977 ).

Callimachus: Hymn to Apollo ( OUP, 1978 ).

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

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.

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.

In myth and cult, fragmentary references and archaic practices remain of the sacred marriage of Hera and Zeus, and at Plataea, there was a sculpture of Hera seated as a bride by Callimachus, as well as the matronly standing Hera.

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.

" 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.

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.

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

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 ".

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.

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

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?

Apollo in recompense for Admetus ' treatment — the Hellenistic poet Callimachus of Alexandria makes him Apollo's eromenos — made all the cows bear twins while he served as his cowherd.

He influenced Alexandrian poets searching for alternative styles and uses of language, such as Callimachus and Herodas, and his colourful reputation as an acerbic, social critic also made him a popular subject for verse, as in this epigram by Theocritus:

X 1241 ), that Ptolemy II never offered the post to Callimachus, but passed him over for Apollonius Rhodius.

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 ).

It blames Callimachus for some unstated offense and mocks both him and his most famous poem, the Aetia (" Causes "):

His collection, for example, shows a familiarity with the usual Alexandrine style of terse epigram and a wealth of mythological learning, while his 66th poem is a direct translation of Callimachus ' Coma Berenices.

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

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, the war-archon of Athens, is killed in the battle.

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

His general fame as a wise and colourful personality has led to his inclusion in narratives as diverse as Mary Renault's historical novel The Praise Singer ( where he is depicted as the narrator and main character ), Plato's Protagoras ( where he is a topic of conversation ), and some verses in Callimachus ' Aetia ( where he is amusingly represented as a ghost complaining about the desecration of his own tomb in Acragas ).

A fragment of Callimachus ' Aitia (" Origins ") appears to ask, " Why, at Sicyon, is it the hoopoe, and not the usual " splendid ravens ", that is the bird of good omen?

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.

More interesting is the fragment attributed to Callimachus, in which the term Gallai denotes castration that has taken place.

Callimachus celebrated the transformation in a poem, of which only a few lines remain, but there is a fine translation of it by Catullus.

He is known to have studied with Menecrates in Ephesus and Philitas in Cos. As a disciple of the Peripatetic philosopher Praxiphanes, in Athens, he met the Stoic philosopher Zeno, as well as Callimachus of Cyrene and Menedemus, the founder of the Eretrian School.

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

" Big book, big evil " ( μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν, mega biblion, mega kakon ) is another of his verses, attacking long, old-fashioned poetry using the very style Callimachus proposed to replace it.

Callimachus ' most famous prose work is the Pinakes ( Lists ), a bibliographical survey of authors of the works held in the Library of Alexandria.

It is important to note that Callimachus did not seem to have any models for his pinakes, and invented this system on his own.

Though he is known to classical scholars as the last possessor of complete versions of Callimachus ' Hecale and Aitia, he was a versatile writer, and composed homilies, speeches and poems, which, with his correspondence, throw considerable light upon the miserable condition of Attica and Athens at the time.

* c. 245 BC: Callimachus is considered the first bibliographer and is the one that organized the library by authors and subjects.

At Marathon in 490 BC the strategoi debated and voted on strategy, but Callimachus the polemarch had a casting vote, and he was the leader ; it is disputed whether that means he was the real, or merely the titular commander-in-chief.