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CALLINUS
of See also:Ephesus, the See also:oldest of the See also:Greek elegiac poets and the creator of the See also:political and warlike See also:elegy
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He is supposed to have flourished between the invasion of See also:Asia See also:Minor by the See also:Cimmerii and their See also:expulsion by See also:Alyattes (63o–56o B.O
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During his lifetime his own countrymen were also engaged in a See also:life-anddeath struggle with the Magnesians
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These two events give the See also: Geiger, De Callini Aetate (1877), who places him earlier, about 642 . |
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