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Iambi
Ἴαμβοι
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of Lyric (melic) poetry: “iambus”
Conjecturedvery likely classc. 305–240 BCE. The great poet of the Ptolemaic court (Aitia, Hymns, Hecale, Iambi, epigrams) and the compiler of the Pinakes, a 120-book bio-bibliography of Greek literature. The papyrus list of heads does not name him, and he was probably never head; the Latin Scholium Plautinum calls him royal librarian.
Iambi
Ἴαμβοι
Opening words not preserved.
Length: not counted
Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.
II · Does it survive? Where to read it
Survives in fragments
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · AttestedWritten in Alexandria.
In the cupboard: written at Alexandria by a scholar or court writer a source places there.
Read it today
- Greek fragments (Scaife Viewer) · the original · link checked 31 Oct 2026
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IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references
- Diegesis to Iambus 1 (P.Mil.Vogl. I 18)
Modern scholarship
- B. Acosta-Hughes, Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
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