Callimachus
historical figure · 9 works · 14 mentions · 24 anchored passages · author page
Callimachus of Parrhasia · Callimachus here · Callimachus the Arcadian · Callimachus the Parrhasian · my antagonist · this man
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4 expressionsCallimachus of Parrhasia2 mentions
Anabasis (Greek)
Volunteers came forward, from the hoplites Aristonymus of Methydrium and Agasias of Stymphalus, while in rivalry with them Callimachus of Parrhasia said that he was ready to make the expedition and take with him volunteers from the entire army;
Callimachus of Aphidnae1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
Callimachus of Aphidnae was polemarch at this time.
Callimachus the Arcadian1 mention
Anabasis (Greek)
And they sent Callimachus the Arcadian, Ariston the Athenian, and Samolas the Achaean.
Callimachus the Parrhasian1 mention
Anabasis (Greek)
As these two seemed disinclined to act, they sent Lycon the Achaean, Callimachus the Parrhasian, and Agasias the Stymphalian.
in the texts
Anabasis
A Parrhasian associated with the embassy to Heracleia and the separatist faction.
As these two seemed disinclined to act, they sent Lycon the Achaean, Callimachus the Parrhasian, and Agasias the Stymphalian.
and the Arcadians and Achaeans proceeded to band themselves together, under the leadership particularly of Callimachus the Parrhasian and Lycon the Achaean.
And they sent Callimachus the Arcadian, Ariston the Athenian, and Samolas the Achaean.
Stromata
Hellenistic poet cited both for corroborating the Branchus story and as an author of deliberately obscure poetry.
" Callimachus too mentions the story in his Iambics.
For the poet Euphorion, and the Causes of Callimachus, and the Alexandra of Lycophron, and such-like works, are set as an exercise in exegesis for the boys of the grammarians.
"Wisdom is the all-healing remedy of all things," Callimachus writes in his epigrams.
Tusculan Disputations
Hellenistic poet cited for two separate epigrams: one on a philosophically-induced suicide, another comparing grief for Priam and Troilus.
(Although Callimachus says, not amiss, that Priam wept far oftener than Troilus.
There is, moreover, that epigram of Callimachus upon Theombrotus of Ambracia, who, he says, though nothing adverse had befallen him, cast himself from the wall into the sea, after reading a book of Plato.
Protrepticus
Hellenistic poet quoted on animal sacrifice, Zeus's Cretan tomb, and obscure cult epithets.
And let not the Scythians cease from sacrificing asses, as Apollodorus and Callimachus say:
The Arcadians worship an Artemis called "the Strangled," as Callimachus says in his Causes.
For the god did not know that Lycaon the Arcadian, his host, having slaughtered his own son (Nyctimus was his name), had set him before Zeus as a dish.
The Histories
Athenian polemarch whose tie-breaking vote, secured by Miltiades, led to the decision to fight at Marathon; he was killed in the battle.
Callimachus of Aphidnae was polemarch at this time.
if you vote with me, your country will be free and your city the first in Hellas.
The polemarch's vote was counted in, and the decision to attack was resolved upon.
The Rights of War and Peace
Figure against whom Isocrates directed his prescription concerning agreements.
Perhaps it was in this senses that Isocrates, treating of agreements, in his prescription against Callimachus, maintains that the laws enacted on this subject are the common laws of all mankind, not only Greeks, but barbarians also.
Against Callimachus
The plaintiff prosecuting the speaker in a suit alleged to violate the Amnesty, portrayed as a habitual malicious litigant and perjurer.
Cratinus once had a dispute over a farm with the brother-in-law of Callimachus.
on the contrary, all through that period he continued to evade service and to keep his property in concealment.
When the brother-in-law of Callimachus had made accusation and Callimachus had testified on oath that the woman was actually dead,
Olympian
A deceased member of Alcimedon's family to whom Iphion is imagined relaying news of the victory in the underworld.
Having heard the voice of Hermes’ daughter, Angelia, Iphion might tell Callimachus of the splendid adornment at Olympia, which Zeus gave to their race.
De Corona
Greek poet cited as a source for stories about Juno's vine crown and Apollo's laurel.
you have Pindar and Callimachus, who records too that Apollo, after the dragon Delphyne was slain, put on the laurel, in which he was a suppliant—for among the ancients suppliants were crowned.