Abstract:
This article examines Catullus’ Callimacheanism in the context of both poets’ spatial poetics. I survey Callimachus’ representation and construction of geography, focusing on the Hymns to identify Callimachus’ particular approach to place. I examine Catullus’ poems 65 and 67 to demonstrate that Catullus’ use of Callimachus’ spatial poetics varied considerably between poems, and at times showed considerable originality.