Callippus

Family: Athenian · Role: captain · First appears: Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus

Callippus was an Athenian captain and a friend of Dion, serving as “a hired captain of foot under Dion, and came into Sicily with him.” After slaying Dion, he became master of Syracuse and was described as acting “like a perfidious and wicked villain” in hope of gaining command of Sicily.

At Rhegium, distressed and unable to maintain his soldiers, Callippus was killed by Leptines and Polysperchon, reportedly with the same sword by which Dion had been murdered.

Relationship record

Life events

Leptines and Polysperchon killed Callippus at Rhegium.(Dion · 📍 Rhegium)
- With: Leptines Polysperchon
- “and there, being in distress and not able to maintain his soldiers, he was killed by Leptines and Polysperchon”

Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus

employer: Dion “the other a hired captain of foot under Dion, and came into Sicily with him”
with Dion (Callippus served as a hired infantry captain under Dion.) “the other a hired captain of foot under Dion, and came into Sicily with him”

Nicias

with Dion (interaction) “Callippus the Athenian, having slain Dion, became master of Syracuse”

Dion

friends with Dion “Dion had a friend called Callippus, an Athenian”
enemies with Dion “like a perfidious and wicked villain, in hopes to get the chief command of Sicily as his reward for the ruin of his friend and benefactor”
with Dion (interaction) “they killed him.”
with Leptines (interaction) “he was killed by Leptines and Polysperchon, and, as fortune would have it with the same sword by which Dion was murdered”
with Polysperchon (interaction) “he was killed by Leptines and Polysperchon”
enemies with Leptines “he was killed by Leptines and Polysperchon”
enemies with Polysperchon “he was killed by Leptines and Polysperchon”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.