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.
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After the fall of Macedonia, Callicrates denounced more than a thousand leading Achaeans who had favoured the cause of Perseus.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
Callicrates, raising his cup, cried— "If we drink like desperate men, we die unavenged!"
From Thais by Douglas, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
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 Child, Lydia Maria Francis
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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