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Callicrates

American  
[kuh-lik-ruh-teez] / kəˈlɪk rəˌtiz /

noun

  1. flourished mid-5th century b.c., Greek architect who together with Ictinus designed the Parthenon.


Callicrates British  
/ kəˈlɪkrəˌtiːz /

noun

  1. 5th century bc , Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon

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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

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

The Parthenon.—Let others analyze its sculptures and explain the technical reasons why Ictinus and Callicrates, the architects, and Phidias, the sculptor, created here the supreme masterpiece for the artistic world.

From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns

As to the long wall, about which Socrates says that he heard Pericles bring forward a motion, Callicrates undertook to build it.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Callicrates, raising his cup, cried— "If we drink like desperate men, we die unavenged!"

From Thais by Douglas, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)