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Callicrates

[ kuh-lik-ruh-teez ]

noun

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


Callicrates

/ kəˈlɪkrəˌtiːz /

noun

  1. Callicrates5th century bc5th century bcMGreekARCHITECTURE: architect 5th century bc , Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
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But Euphantus, in the fourth book of his Histories, says that Callicrates was a flatterer of Ptolemy, the third king of Egypt, who was so subtle a flatterer that he not only bore an image of Ulysses on his seal, but that he also gave his children the names of Telegonus, and Anticlea.

The long wall, the building of which Socrates says he heard Pericles propose to the people, was undertaken by Callicrates.

There Socrates discoursed on philosophy; there Euripides and Sophocles read their plays; there Anaxagoras dilated upon the nature and constitution of the universe; there Phidias, the greatest sculptor of all time, and Ictinus and Callicrates unfolded their plans for that supreme creation of architecture, the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis.

But in doing so, they ignored the wisdom of the Parthenon's original designers, the sculptor Phidias and Architects Ictinus and Callicrates.

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.

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