Callippides
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the actor · the father of these men · their father
in the texts
Against Callicles
The father of Callicles and his associates, formerly the speaker's father's neighbor.
and my father lived on more than fifteen years longer, and their father as many.
Do they not prove also that the land was walled in during the lifetime of their father without opposition being made by these men or any other of the neighbors?
My father built the wall around this land almost before I was born, while Callippides, the father of these men was still living, and was my father’s neighbor (and of course he knew the facts better than these men do), and when, moreover, Callicles was already a grown man, and was living at Athens;
Symposium
An actor used as a foil for Philip's comic pride.
And my pride is better founded, I think, replied Philip, than that of Callippides, the actor, who is consumed with vanity because he can fill the seats with audiences that weep.