Callicles

Family: Megara · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 7

In Book 6, Chapter 7, Callicles is identified as a Megarian and the son of Theocosmus, who made the statue of Zeus at Megara. Callicles is credited with making the statues of Diagoras and Gnatho.

Relationship record

Book 6 · Chapter 7

• parent: Theocosmus “the Megarian Callicles, the son of that Theocosmus who made the statue of Zeus at Megara.”
• with Diagoras (Callicles made the statue of Diagoras.) “And the statue of Diagoras is by the Megarian Callicles, the son of that Theocosmus who made the statue of Zeus at Megara.”
• with Gnatho (Callicles made Gnatho's statue.) “That Gnatho, when he conquered, was exceptionally young is stated in the inscription, his statue is by Callicles the Megarian.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.