Abstract
In responding to the reputation of Callimachus today, and particular in considering the whole of the achievement of the Brill’s Companion to Callimachus, this epilogue posits that we may best think of Callimachus as the first modern poet, one whose work is consciously, continually aware of another poetry as earlier. He is aware of the poem as text, and of the poem as song; he evokes performative occasion, and at the same time the labor of poetic composition, and his own text as object of composition. Callimachus is a poet both of the Archaic past and the post-Alexander present. In this dual character he is comparable to a much later Alexandrian poet, Constantine Cavafy, and it is with a reading of these two figures, so distant in time, if not in place, that this epilogue concludes.
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