id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8766 Callimachus - Wikipedia .html text/html 2764 414 72 240 BC[1]) was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya.[2] He was a poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of the Egyptian–Greek Pharaohs Ptolemy II Philadelphus[3] and Ptolemy III Euergetes. This, his Pinakes, 120 volumes long,[4] provided the foundation for later work on the history of ancient Greek literature. 3 Critical editions (Ancient Greek texts) Callimachus' most famous prose work is the Pinakes (Lists), a bibliographical survey of authors of the works held in the Library of Alexandria. & Mair, G.R. Callimachus: Hymns and Epigrams. Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Καλλίμαχος Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8766.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8766.txt