Editing Callimachus (section)

===Modern===
Classical scholars place Callimachus among the most influential Greek poets.{{Sfn|Ambühl|2012}} According to Kathryn Gutzwiller, he "reinvented Greek poetry for the Hellenistic age by devising a personal style that came, through its manifestations in Roman poetry, to influence the entire tradition of modern literature".{{Sfn|Gutzwiller|2007|p=60}} She also writes that his lasting importance is demonstrated by the strong reactions his poetry elicited from contemporaries and posterity.{{Sfn|Gutzwiller|2007|p=61}} [[Richard L. Hunter]], an expert on Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, states that the selective reception of Callimachus through Roman poets has led to a simplified picture of his poetry. Hunter writes that modern critics have drawn up a [[false dichotomy]] between the "content-laden and socially engaged poetry of the [[archaic Greece|archaic]] and [[classical Greece|classical periods]]"{{Sfn|Hunter|2012|p=2}} and a sophisticated, but meaningless style proposed by Callimachus.{{Sfn|Hunter|2012|pp=2–3}} Echoing Hunter's assessment in their 2012 book on the reception of Callimachus, the Hellenists Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan Stephens comment that the scarcity of primary evidence and the reliance on Roman accounts has created a label of Callimacheanism that does not accurately represent his literary work.{{Sfn|Acosta-Hughes|Stephens|2012|p=1}}