Callias
Also known as: Callias, surnamed the Rich · Family: Athens · Role: aristocrat · First appears: Pericles
Life events
- Cimon betrothed Elpinice to Callias, who offered to pay Miltiades’ unpaid fine.(Cimon)
- Cimon’s victories over Persia compelled the king to make peace with Greece through Callias’s embassy.(Cimon)
- With: Cimon
- “This success of Cimon so daunted the king of Persia, that he presently made that celebrated peace, by which he engaged that his armies should come no nearer the Grecian sea than the length of a horse's course; and that none of his galleys or vessels of war should appear between the Cyanean and Chelidonian isles.”
Alcibiades
- parent: Hipponicus “Hipponicus, the father of Callias”
Aristides
- cousins with Aristides “Callias, the torchbearer, was related to him”
- with Aristides (interaction) “when he frequently offered him divers presents, and entreated him to accept them, he had refused”
- with Aristides (Callias benefited from Aristides's influence.) “though he is his own cousin, and has made use of him in many cases, and often reaped advantage by his interest with you”
Cimon
- engaged with Elpinice “when Callias, one of the richest men of Athens, fell in love with her, and proffered to pay the fine the father was condemned in, if he could obtain the daughter in marriage, with Elpinice's own consent, Cimon betrothed her to Callias.”
- with Cimon (interaction) “Cimon betrothed her to Callias”
- admired: Elpinice “when Callias, one of the richest men of Athens, fell in love with her”
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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.