Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select FragmentsHaving found his translators, may Callimachus now find the public he deserves. D. S. Carne Ross A Poundian figure who summed up the possibilties of a new era's response to an old and rich poetic tradition, Callimachus (ca. 305 B. C. ca. 240 B. C.) was the first learned scholar poet in Western literature. The leading poet of the Alexandrian school, Callimachus served as a model to Vergil, Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid. With remarkable grace and