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01548--Alexandrianism


Alexandrianism is the works and styles of the Alexandrian school of Greek poets in the hellenistic age (323 bce-31 bce), which included Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius, and Theocritus. The Alexandrian style was marked by elaborate artificiality, obscure mythological allusion, and eroticism. it influenced Catullus and other roman poets.