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.

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Callicrates British  

/ kəˈlɪkrəˌtiːz /

noun

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

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Callicrates

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

And wisdom, Callicrates, is not given to poets, who live in the rude world of forms and amuse themselves, like children, with sounds and empty shows.

From Thais by Robert B. (Robert Bruce) Douglas

It is one of the many mighty works wherewith Pericles and his right-hand man Pheidias, and his architects Ictinus and Callicrates, adorned Athens.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

This celebrated temple was built by Ictinus and Callicrates, two Greek architects who flourished about B. C. 430.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

Ictinus, Callicrates, and Carpion, were the architects of this temple; Phidias was the artist; and its entire cost has been estimated at seven million and a half of dollars.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

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