Callinus of Ephesus - Archaic Greek Elegiac Poet

Callinus wrote elegies. Only one of the surviving fragments of Callinus' elegies is substantial. It consists of 21 lines and is a military song. Elegy was normally accompanied by a pipe player. The work of the earliest elegists, Callinus, Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus was suitable for performance on military campaigns and at parties.

A contemporary of Archilochus, Callinus was active in the middle of the seventh century B.C.

Elegiac poetry

Callinus came from Ephesus.

Meter in Greek and Latin Poetry
Archaic Greece Timeline

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature Volume I Part 1 - Early Greek Poetry. Edited by P.E Easterling and B.M.W. Knox. 1989.