Callimachus the poet and benefactor of the Athenians

Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

Volumn 140, Issue , 2002, Pages 6-8

  Oliver, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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References (19)

1. S. Hornblower (David Malcolm Lewis 1928-1994, Proceedings of the British Academy 94 (1996), 557-96 at 595 with n. 66)
2. drew attention to D. M. Lewis' suggestion recorded by G. J. Oliver in The Athenian State under Threat: Politics and Food Supply, 307 to 229 B.C. (unpublished D. Phil, thesis, Oxford, 1995), p. 153 n. 14
3. The publication of new dates for the archons of the 240s has made it possible to re-visit (belatedly) this point. For the re-assessment of the relevant mid-third century Athenian archon list, see M. J. Osborne, Philinos and the Athenian archons of the 250s BC, in P. Flensted-Jensen et al. (eds) Polis and Politics. Studies in Ancient Greek History (Copenhagen, 2000), pp. 507-20
4. C. Habicht, Studien zur Geschichte Athens in hellenistischer Zeit (Hypomnemata Heft 73, Göttingen, 1982), p. 26 withn. 71
5. Op. cit., p. 32
6. L. Threatte, The Grammar of Attic Inscriptions, Volume I (Berlin, 1980), p. 100
7. The unique form of Callimachus without further qualification was noted by, e.g. A. Rangabé, Antiquités Helléniques (Athens, 1855), p. 576, no. 880
8. Osborne, Philinos and the Athenian archons of the 250s BC, in Flensted-Jensen et al. (eds) Polis and Politics (see n. 2), p. 508 with n. 15
9. Op. cit., p. 510 with n. 22
10. B. Petrakos, Ergon 1993, 7-8
11. C. Meillier, Callimaque et son temps (Lille, 1979), pp. 155-68
12. A. Cameron, Callimachus and his critics (New Jersey, 1995), pp. 174-84 on his old age
13. Cameron has Callimachus aged 40-45 in 270 B.C. C. Meillier, Callimaque et son temps (Lille, 1979), p. 165 has the poet at 50 years old in 264 B.C
14. A. S. Hollis, Attica in Hellenistic Poetry, ZPE 93 (1992), 1-15
15. See U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Antigonos von Karystos (Berlin, 1881), pp. 78-85
16. T. Dorandi, Richerche sulla cronologia dei filosofi ellenistici (Stuttgart, 1991), pp. 68-9
17. C. Habicht, Hellenistic Athens and her philosophers, in C. Habicht (ed.) Athen in der hellenistischen Zeit (München, 1994), pp. 231-47, with additional notes on pp. 357-8. Diogenes Laertius, 5.68 and 67 respectively
18. For Hieronymus of Rhodes, the Peripatetic, see J.-P. Schneider, s.v. Hieronymos of Rhodes (H 129), DPhA III, 701-05
19. Op. cit., pp. 239-41