Because they had every conceivable OTHER strange artistic movement?

This is probably true . . .

I still don't know what it means, though.

It's from a fragment of Sappho:

δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐδαες, μέσαι δὲ
νύκτες, παρὰ δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,
ἐγὼ δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

The moon has set
and the Pleiades, it is mid-
night, and the hours pass
and I lie alone.

And 'Big Book, Very Bad'???

Yes! It is famously attributed to Kallimachos (Athenaios of Naukratis, Deipnosophistae: Ὅτι Καλλίμαχος ὁ γραμματικὸς τὸ μέγα βιβλίον / ἴσον ἔλεγεν εἶναι τῷ μεγάλῳ κακῷ), professing his preference for the neat, sweet, and concise rather than the overblown epic. Ink has been spilled over exactly what he meant by this.

Cool post!

Thank you!