Category:Ancient Greek elegiac poets

The elegy originated in Ionia and always continued to be written in Ionic Greek.A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes by Frank Byron Jevons (1894), p. 112. In Hellenistic period, the Ionic elegy was revived in the hands of Callimachus, Philetas, Eratosthenes, Parthenius, and others.A History of Classical Greek Literature: Volume 2. The Prose Writers by John Pentland Mahaffy (2001), p. 194, {{ISBN|1402170416}}.