Callinus

Callinus in Wikipedia

Callinus (also known as Kallinus) (Greek: Καλλῖνος) was a poet who lived in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus in Asia Minor in the mid-7th century BC. He is the earliest known Greek elegiac poet. Very little is known about his life. He may have taken part in the war between Ephesus and Magnesia on the Maeander, since he so eloquently describes it....

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Callīnus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Καλλῖνος). The creator of the Greek political elegy. He was a native of Ephesus, and flourished probably about B.C. 700, at the time when the kings of Lydia were harassing the Greek colonies of Asia Minor by constant wars. One elegy from his hand has survived, in which, in a simple and manly tone, he endeavours to arouse the degenerate youth of hi...

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