Callicrates
Americannoun
noun
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But in doing so, they ignored the wisdom of the Parthenon's original designers, the sculptor Phidias and Architects Ictinus and Callicrates.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The fleet was under the command of Aristeus, son of Pellichas, Callicrates, son of Callias, and Timanor, son of Timanthes; the troops under that of Archetimus, son of Eurytimus, and Isarchidas, son of Isarchus.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard
At Platæa, Callicrates was numbered among the heroes because of his looks.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
It was designed by Ictinus in collaboration with Callicrates, and built on the south side of the Acropolis on a foundation carried down to the solid rock.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
After the fall of Macedonia, Callicrates denounced more than a thousand leading Achaeans who had favoured the cause of Perseus.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
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