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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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)
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