Calliteles

Family: Lacedæmon · Role: designer · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 27

In Book 5, Chapter 27, Calliteles jointly designed a votive Hermes for the Arcadians of Pheneos with Onatas. The inscription names both designers. In Book 6, Chapter 15, Xenon is identified as Calliteles’ son; in Chapter 16, Polypithes is also identified as his son.

Relationship record

Life events

• Onatas and Calliteles jointly designed a votive Hermes for the Arcadians of Pheneos.(Book 5 · Chapter 27 · 📍 Olympia)
  • With: Onatas
  • “And the inscription states that Onatas the Æginetan jointly designed it with Calliteles”

Book 5 · Chapter 27

• with Onatas (They jointly designed the votive offering; Calliteles may have been Onatas's pupil or son.) “the inscription states that Onatas the Æginetan jointly designed it with Calliteles”
• with Onatas (Calliteles is described uncertainly as either Onatas's pupil or son.) “the inscription states that Onatas the Æginetan jointly designed it with Calliteles, who must I think have been the pupil or son of Onatas”
• with Hermes (The pronoun refers to the statue of Hermes.) “the inscription states that Onatas the Æginetan jointly designed it with Calliteles”

Book 6 · Chapter 15

• child: Xenon “the statue of Xenon, the son of Calliteles, of Lepreus in Triphylia”

Book 6 · Chapter 16

• child: Polypithes (Calliteles is Polypithes's father.) “Calliteles (the father of Polypithes) the wrestler”

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