Calliades
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Man who opposed the admission of Callias' disputed son to the Ceryces.
Calliades opposed his admission;
The Histories
The archon of Athens at the time the Persian army reached Attica, used by Herodotus as a chronological marker.
Since the crossing of the Hellespont, where the barbarians began their journey, they had spent one month there crossing into Europe and in three more months were in Attica, when Calliades was archon at Athens.