Callicrates
Family: Magnesia · Role: athlete · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 17
In Book 6, Chapter 17, Callicrates’s statue was made by Lysippus. By Book 7, Chapter 11, his friendship with the Romans gave him great influence among the Achaeans. When the Oropians bribed Menalcidas to secure Achaean aid, Menalcidas promised Callicrates half the payment. Callicrates supported his request, and the Achaeans decided to help the Oropians against Athens; later, their attempt to persuade the Achaeans to invade Attica failed, and the army returned.
In Book 7, Chapter 12, after Menalcidas withheld Callicrates’s share, Callicrates removed him from office and prosecuted him on a capital charge. Callicrates was also sent with Diæus to Rome to plead against Spartan exiles before the Senate, but he died of an illness on the road.
Relationship record
Life events
- The Oropians bribed Menalcidas, who promised half the payment to Callicrates for securing Achaean aid.(Book 7 · Chapter 11)
- With: Menalcidas
- “Then the Oropians promised ten talents to Menalcidas, a Lacedæmonian by birth but serving at this time as General of the Achæans, if he would make the Achæans help them. And he promised half the money to Callicrates, who because of his friendship with the Romans had the greatest influence over the Achæans.”
- Callicrates supported Menalcidas’s request, and the Achæans decided to aid the Oropians against Athens.(Book 7 · Chapter 11)
- With: Menalcidas
- “And Callicrates responding to the wishes of Menalcidas, it was determined to help the Oropians against the Athenians.”
- Their attempt to persuade the Achaeans to invade Attica failed, and the army returned.(Book 7 · Chapter 11 · 📍 Attica)
- With: Menalcidas
- “And Menalcidas and Callicrates tried to persuade the Achæans who came up too late for help, to make an inroad into Attica: but as they were against it, especially those who had come from Lacedæmon, the army went back again.”
- Menalcidas withheld Callicrates’s promised share of the Oropian payment.(Book 7 · Chapter 12)
- With: Menalcidas
- “he was so bold as to deprive him of it altogether.”
- Callicrates removed Menalcidas from office and prosecuted him on a capital charge.(Book 7 · Chapter 12)
- With: Menalcidas
- “he deprived him of his office, and prosecuted him on a capital charge before the Achæans”
- Callicrates died from an illness while traveling toward Rome.(Book 7 · Chapter 12)
- “And Callicrates died on the road of some illness”
Book 6 · Chapter 17
- with Lysippus (Lysippus sculpted the statue of Callicrates.) “His statue is by Lysippus.”
Book 7 · Chapter 11
- with Menalcidas (Menalcidas promised Callicrates half of the money offered by the Oropians.) “Then the Oropians promised ten talents to Menalcidas, a Lacedæmonian by birth but serving at this time as General of the Achæans, if he would make the Achæans help them. And he promised half the money to Callicrates, who because of his friendship with the Romans had the greatest influence over the Achæans.”
Book 7 · Chapter 12
- enemies with Menalcidas (Callicrates prosecuted Menalcidas after Menalcidas deprived him of his share of the bribe.) “Callicrates, who was never superior to any bribe, and had got nothing out of his hatred to Athens, was so vexed with Menalcidas that he deprived him of his office, and prosecuted him on a capital charge before the Achæans”
- with Diæus (They were joint Achaean envoys to Rome.) “but Callicrates and Diæus were sent by the Achæans to Rome to plead against these Spartan exiles before the Senate”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.