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 * This article is about the ancient Greek poem; for the plant genus, see Combretum.

The Aetia (Ancient Greek: Αἴτια, Aitia) is an ancient Greek elegiac poem composed by Callimachus of Cyrene during the third-century BCE.

Reception
The influence of the Aetia is seen most plainly in the Roman poetry of the Late Republic and Augustan Age.

Catullus 65. 66. 116.

Propertius 3.1.1–4:

4.1.64 (Roman Callimachus) 3.9.35–44 (small boat, Call. & Philit.) 2.34.33–4 (slim Philit. turgid Call.) Mart. Ep. 10.4

The diēgēsis (Ancient Greek: διήγησις, "narration"). TO DO: the plate in P.Mil.Vogl. I is public domain, now: scan it. So is the PSI fragment of the Coma Berenices!

Editions (Greek Text)

 * Pfeiffer, Rudolf. Callimachus. V. 1, Fragmenta. (Oxford 1949, repr. 1965); V. 2, Hymni et epigrammata (Oxford 1953). (in classical Greek)

Commentaries

 * Harder, A. Callimachus: Aetia (OUP, 2011).
 * Hopkinson, Neil. A Hellenistic Anthology (CUP, 1988). NB&mdash;includes only the Reply to the Telchines and Acontius and Cydippe.
 * Massimilla, G. Aitia. libri primo e secondo (Pisa: Giardini editori, 1996).
 * Massimilla, G. Aitia. libro terzo e quarto (Pisa: F. Serra, 2010).

Translations

 * Nisetich, F. The Poems of Callimachus (OUP, 2001).