Callicrates

Callĭcrătēs, (14) is, m. , Callicrate, [sculpteur de Lacédémone] : Plin. 7, 85 || autres du même nom : Nep. Dion 8, 1 ; Liv. 41, 23, 5.

Callicrătes

(Καλλικράτης). (1) An Athenian, who caused Dion (q.v.) to be assassinated.

(2) An officer intrusted with the care of the treasures of Susa by Alexander.

(3) An architect, who, in conjunction with Ictinus, built the Parthenon at Athens, and who undertook also to complete the Long Walls termed σκέλη ( Pericl. c. 13). He appears to have flourished about B.C. 440.

(4) A sculptor, distinguished principally by the minuteness of his performances. He is mentioned as a Lacedaemonian, and is associated with Myrmecides by Aelian (V. H. i. 17). In connection with this artist he is said to have made some chariots which could be covered with the wings of a fly, and to have inscribed on a grain of the plant sesamum some verses of Homer (Plin.vii. 21). Galen, therefore, well applies to him the epithet ματαιότεχνος. Athenaeus, however, relates that he engraved only large vases. The age in which he lived is uncertain.

Callicrates Callicrates, a Magnesian

• Olympic victor: Paus. 6.17.3

Callicrates(2), a Spartankilled (but not in actual fighting) at Plataea

• Hdt. 9.72

Callicrates(3), an Achaean

• completes subjection of Greece to Rome: Paus. 7.10.5, 7, 9-11
• evil genius of Greece: Paus. 7.11.2
• his intrigues: Paus. 7.11.7ff., Paus. 7.12.1ff.
• sent as envoy to Rome: Paus. 7.12.8
• his death: Paus. 7.12.8