Callimachus
Greek poet, critic and scholar Callimachus (c. 305–240 BCE), born into a distinguished family in Cyrene in Libya, was the most representative poet of the Alexandrian school. His family claimed links to the Battiad dynasty, which ruled Cyrenaica for eight generations. Members of his family included several Cyrenaic philosophers. According to Diogenes Laertius, an ancestor named Anniceris ransomed Plato from the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius, so the family must have been wealthy and well-connected.
Other details of his life outside Cyrene and Alexandria are uncertain.
