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

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

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

From Thais by Robert B. (Robert Bruce) Douglas

In some places, an open-work partition, richly and curiously wrought by the skilful hand of Callicrates, separated this gallery from the outer balustrade of the building.

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Francis Child

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