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Alexandrianism

The Alexandrian style was marked by elaborate artificiality, obscure mythological allusion, and eroticism,.
These were the works and styles of the Alexandrian school of Greek poets in the Hellenistic age (323 - 31 BC), which included Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius, and Theocritus. It influenced Catullus and other Roman poets.


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