CALLINUS  of

Ephesus, the oldest of the Greek elegiac poets and the creator of the political and warlike elegy . He is supposed to have flourished between the invasion of Asia Minor by the Cimmerii and their expulsion by Alyattes (63o–56o B.O . During his lifetime his own countrymen were also engaged in a life-anddeath struggle with the Magnesians . These two events give the key to his poetry, in which he endeavours to rouse the indolent Ionians to a sense of patriotism . Only scanty fragments of his poems remain; the longest of these (preserved in Stobaeus, Florilegium, li . 19) has even been ascribed to Tyrtaeus . Edition of the fragments by N . Bach (1831), and in Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882) . On the date of Callinus, see the histories of Greek literature by Mare and Muller; G . H . Bode, Geschichte der helleniscken Dichtkunst, ii. pt. i . (1838); and G .

Geiger, De Callini Aetate (1877), who places him earlier, about 642 .