Criticism and History
- Acosta-Hughes, B. Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (U. California, 2002). ISBN 978-0-520-22060-7.
- Bing, P. The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets, 2nd ed. (University of Michigan Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9799713-0-3.
- Blum, R. Kallimachos. The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography, trans. H.H. Wellisch (U. Wisconsin, 1991). ISBN 978-0-299-13170-8.
- Cameron, A. Callimachus and his Critics (Princeton, 1995). ISBN 978-0-691-04367-8.
- de Romilly, J. A Short History of Greek Literature, trans. L. Doherty. (University of Chicago Press, 1985). ISBN 978-0-226-14312-5.
- Fantuzzi, M. & Hunter, R. Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (CUP, 2004). ISBN 978-0-521-83511-4.
- Ferguson, John (1980). Callimachus. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
- Green, Peter. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (U. California, 1990) ISBN 978-0-520-08349-3, chapters 11 ('The Critic as Poet: Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron') and 13 ('Armchair Epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the Voyage of Argo').
- Harder, M. A.; Regtuit, R. F.; Wakker, G. C., eds. (1993). Hellenistica Groningana. Vol. 1: Callimachus. Groningen: Egbert Forsten.
- Hunter, R. The Shadow of Callimachus (CUP, 2006). ISBN 978-0-521-69179-6.
- Hutchinson, G. O. (1988). Hellenistic Poetry. New York: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814748-0.
- Selden, D. "Alibis," Classical Antiquity 17 (1998), 289–411.
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