His wife, whom he divorced, subsequently became the wife of Pericles; one of his daughters, Hipparete, married Alcibiades; another, the wife of Theodorus, was the mother of the orator Isocrates.
See Thucydides iii. 91; Diod. Sic. xii. 65; Andocides, Contra Alcibiadem, 13.
3. Callias, son of the above, the black sheep of the family, was notorious for his profligacy and extravagance, and was ridiculed by the comic poets as an example of a degenerate Athenian (Aristophanes, Frogs, 429, Birds, 283, and schol. Andocides, De Mysteriis, 110–131). The scene of Xenophon’s Symposium and Plato’s Protagoras was laid at his house. He was reduced to a state of absolute poverty and, according to Aelian (Var. Hist. iv. 23), committed suicide, but there is no confirmation of this. In spite of his dissipated life he played a certain part in public affairs. In 392 he was in command of the Athenian hoplites at Corinth, when the Spartans were defeated by Iphicrates. In 371 he was at the head of the embassy sent to make terms with Sparta. The peace which was the result was called after him the “peace of Callias.”
See Xenophon, Hellenica, iv. 5, vi. 3; and Delian League.
CALLIMACHUS, an Athenian sculptor of the second half of the
5th century B.C. Ancient critics associate him with Calamis,
whose relative he may have been. He is given credit for two
inventions, the Corinthian column and the running borer for
drilling marble. The most certain facts in regard to him are that
he sculptured some dancing Laconian maidens, and made a
golden lamp for the Erechtheum (about 408 B.C.); and that he
used to spoil his works by over-refinement and excessive labour.
CALLIMACHUS, Greek poet and grammarian, a native of
Cyrene and a descendant of the illustrious house of the Battiadae,
flourished about 250 B.C. He opened a school in the suburbs of
Alexandria, and some of the most distinguished grammarians
and poets were his pupils. He was subsequently appointed
by Ptolemy Philadelphus chief librarian of the Alexandrian
library, which office he held till his death (about 240). His
Pinakes (tablets), in 120 books, a critical and chronologically
arranged catalogue of the library, laid the foundation of a history
of Greek literature. According to Suidas, he wrote about 800
works, in verse and prose; of these only six hymns, sixty-four
epigrams and some fragments are extant; a considerable
fragment of the Hecale, an idyllic epic, has also been discovered
in the Rainer papyri (see Kenyon in Classical Review, November
1893). His Coma Berenices is only known from the celebrated
imitation of Catullus. His Aitia (causes) was a collection of
elegiac poems in four books, dealing with the foundation of
cities, religious ceremonies and other customs. According to
Quintilian (Instit. x. i. 58) he was the chief of the elegiac poets;
his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans, and imitated by
Ovid, Catullus and especially Propertius. The extant hymns
are extremely learned, and written in a laboured and artificial
style. The epigrams, some of the best specimens of their kind,
have been incorporated in the Greek Anthology. Art and learning
are his chief characteristics, unrelieved by any real poetic
genius; in the words of Ovid (Amores, i. 15)—
“Quamvis ingenio non valet, arte valet.”
Editions.—Hymns, epigrams and fragments (the last collected by Bentley) by J. A. Ernesti (1761), and O. Schneider (1870–1873) (with elaborate indices and excursuses); hymns and epigrams, by A. Meineke (1861), and U. Wilamowitz-Möllendorff (1897). See Neue Bruchstücke aus der Hekale des Kallimachus, by T. Gomperz (1893); also G. Knaack, Callimachea (1896); A. Bertrami, Gl’ Inni di Callimacho e il Nomo di Terpandro (1896); K. Kuiper, Studia Callimachea (1896); A. Hamette, Les Épigrammes de Callimaque: étude critique et litteraire (Paris, 1907). There are English translations (verse) by W. Dodd (1755) and H. W. Tytler (1793); (prose) by J. Banks (1856). See also Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. i. (ed. 1906), p. 122.
CALLINUS of Ephesus, the oldest of the Greek elegiac poets
and the creator of the political and warlike elegy. He is supposed
to have flourished between the invasion of Asia Minor by the
Cimmerii and their expulsion by Alyattes (630–560 B.C.). During
his lifetime his own countrymen were also engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the Magnesians. These two events give the key to his poetry, in which he endeavours to rouse the indolent Ionians to a sense of patriotism. Only scanty fragments of his
poems remain; the longest of these (preserved in Stobaeus, Florilegium, li. 19) has even been ascribed to Tyrtaeus.
Edition of the fragments by N. Bach (1831), and in Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882). On the date of Callinus, see the histories of Greek literature by Mure and Müller; G. H. Bode, Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst, ii. pt. i. (1838); and G. Geiger, De Callini Aetate (1877), who places him earlier, about 642.
CALLIOPE, the muse of epic poetry, so named from the sweetness of her voice (Gr. κάλλος, beauty; ὄψ, voice). In Hesiod she was the last of the nine sisters, but yet enjoyed a supremacy over the others. (See also Muses, The.)
CALLIRRHOE, in Greek legend, second daughter of the river-god
Achelous and wife of Alcmaeon (q.v.). At her earnest
request her husband induced Phegeus, king of Psophis in Arcadia,
and the father of his first wife Arsinoë (or Alphesiboea), to hand
over to him the necklace and peplus (robe) of Harmonia (q.v.),
that he might dedicate them at Delphi to complete the cure of
his madness. When Phegeus discovered that they were really
meant for Callirrhoe, he gave orders for Alcmaeon to be waylaid
and killed (Apollodorus iii. 7, 2. 5-7; Thucydides ii. 102).
Callirrhoe now implored the gods that her two young sons might
grow to manhood at once and avenge their father’s death.
This was granted, and her sons Amphoterus and Acarnan slew
Phegeus with his two sons, and returning with the necklace and
peplus dedicated them at Delphi (Ovid, Metam. ix. 413).
CALLISTHENES (c. 360–328 B.C.), of Olynthus, Greek historian,
a relative and pupil of Aristotle, through whose recommendation
he was appointed to attend Alexander the Great in his Asiatic
expedition. He censured Alexander’s adoption of oriental
customs, inveighing especially against the servile ceremony of
adoration. Having thereby greatly offended the king, he was
accused of being privy to a treasonable conspiracy and thrown
into prison, where he died from torture or disease. His melancholy end
was commemorated in a special treatise (Καλλισθένης ἢ περὶ πένθους) by his friend Theophrastus, whose acquaintance
he made during a visit to Athens. Callisthenes wrote
an account of Alexander’s expedition, a history of Greece from
the peace of Antalcidas (387) to the Phocian war (357), a
history of the Phocian war and other works, all of which have
perished. The romantic life of Alexander, the basis of all the
Alexander legends of the middle ages, originated during the
time of the Ptolemies, but in its present form belongs to the
3rd century A.D. Its author is usually known as pseudo-Callisthenes,
although, in the Latin translation by Julius Valerius
Alexander Polemius (beginning of the 4th century) it is ascribed
to a certain Aesopus; Aristotle, Antisthenes, Onesicritus and
Arrian have also been credited with the authorship. There are
also Syrian, Armenian and Slavonic versions, in addition to
four Greek versions (two in prose and two in verse) in the middle
ages (see Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur,
1897, p. 849). Valerius’s translation was completely superseded
by that of Leo, arch-priest of Naples in the 10th century, the so-called
Historia de Preliis.
See Scriptores rerum Alexandri Magni (by C. W. Müller, in the Didot edition of Arrian, 1846), containing the genuine fragments and the text of the pseudo-Callisthenes, with notes and introduction; A. Westermann, De Callisthene Olynthio et Pseudo-Callisthene Commentatio (1838–1842); J. Zacher, Pseudo-Callisthenes (1867); W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898), pp. 363, 819; article by Edward Meyer in Ersch and Gruber’s Allgemeine Encyklopädie; A. Ausfeld, Zur Kritik des griechischen Alexanderromans (Bruchsal, 1894); Plutarch, Alexander, 52-55; Arrian, Anab. iv. 10-14; Diog. Laërtius v. 1; Quintus Curtius viii. 5-8; Suidas s.v. See also Alexander The Great (ad fin.). For the Latin translations see Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng, trans.), § 399; and M. Schanz, Geschichte der römischen Litteratur, iv. 1., p.43.
CALLISTO, in Greek mythology, an Arcadian nymph, daughter
of Lycaon and companion of Artemis. She was transformed into
a bear as a penalty for having borne to Zeus a son, Arcas, the
ancestor of the Arcadians. Hera, Zeus and Artemis are all
mentioned as the authors of the transformation. Arcas, when
hunting, encountered the bear Callisto, and would have shot her,
had not Zeus with swift wind carried up both to the skies, where
he placed them as a constellation. In another version, she was
