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The earliest sentences originated as epigrams on tombstones, transforming despair into eloquence. They evolved into an art form featuring poets like Callimachus and Martial. These concise expressions convey deep meaning, illustrating the power of brevity and thoughtfulness.
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We possess an epigram ascribed to Apollonios, composed in the form of two mock encyclopedia entries: "KALLIMACHOS: Trash, cheap joke, blockhead. Original Sin: Writing Kallimachos's Origins." -Introduction to the Argonautica (Green translation)
I go down to Marathon, so that . . . and [Pallas] leads the way. [You have thus learned from me] what you asked me. And you, good mother, [tell me, for I also] wish to hear you for a while [speaking] . . . you live an old woman in a lonely . . . { about 32 lines missing } They guarded my threshing floor, trod in a circle by the oxen. Horses [brought] him from Aphidnae, looking like . . . and who were Zeus' sons . . . I remember the beautiful . . . mantle held by golden brooches, a work of spiders .
-Callimachus, Hecale. 253
A conversation between Theseus and Hecale. Theseus(?) commenting how beautiful the mantle looks, comparing that of a spider. This is possibly an early reference to Arachne.
The complete story of Arachne is only founded in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In only other account, Virgil, made a vague reference similar to here.
Here's a rather neat interaction between siblings Herakles and Artemis, Herakles teasing his elder sister, from Kallimakos' Hymn to Artemis, a lone translation of the hymn by one Yvonne Rathbone:
I will sing of Leto’s marriage, of Apollo and of Artemis, your name repeated many times all your labors, your dogs, your bow, your chariot as it carries you lightly, wondrous to behold, to the house of Zeus. At the entrance, Guileless Hermes takes your weapons and Apollo takes whatever wild beast you’ve killed at least he did so until Herakles came; now the “Anvil of Tiryns” hangs round the gates, hoping you’ll bring a hunk of fat meat. The gods never fail to laugh at him, his mother-in-law, Hera, more than anyone, as he drags a great big bull from the chariot or a wild boar, gasping for breath, by the foot. Then he lectures the goddess so very craftily: “You should kill lions, so that mortals will praise you like they do me. Let the deer and hare have their mountains. What harm do they do? Swine, now, they savage the fields, and cows are a great evil to mankind. Shoot them instead.”
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Callimachus being like: "Some people say that Zeus was born on Crete, and some say he was born in Arcadia. I don't know tbe truth, but I like the second version more, so I'll stick with it".
And that, my friends, is how we all should approach inconsistencies in mythological fandom, lol.
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"Apollo will honour the choir, since it sings according to his heart; for Apollo has power, for that he sits on the right hand of Zeus. Nor will the choir sing of Phoebus for one day only. He is a copious theme of song; who would not readily sing of Phoebus?"
- Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo
