Callias

Family: Athenian · Role: general · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 2 · Part 1

In Book 1, Callias is identified as the father of Callicrates, who commanded part of the Corinthian fleet sent to fight the Corcyraeans at Epidamnus. The Corcyraeans defeated the fleet that same day at Actium.

Later in Book 1, Callias commanded Athenian forces against the Potidæans and their allies. The Athenians defeated them, and “Callias their general” was among the 150 Athenian citizens killed. Callias is also identified as the father of Calliades; in Book 3, Hipponicus is named as his son.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Corinthian fleet sailed to give battle to the Corcyraeans, under the command of the named officers.(Book 1 · Chapter 2 · Part 1 · 📍 Epidamnus)
  • With: Aristeus son of Pellichas Pellichas Callicrates Timanor Timanthes Archetimus Eurytimus Isarchidas Isarchus
  • “Turning a deaf ear to all these proposals, when their ships were manned and their allies had come in, the Corinthians sent a herald before them to declare war and, getting under way with seventy-five ships and two thousand heavy infantry, sailed for Epidamnus to give battle to the Corcyraeans. The fleet was under the command of Aristeus, son of Pellichas, Callicrates, son of Callias, and Timanor, son of Timanthes; the troops under that of Archetimus, son of Eurytimus, and Isarchidas, son of Isarchus.”
• The Corcyraeans defeated the Corinthian fleet and destroyed fifteen of its vessels.(Book 1 · Chapter 2 · Part 1 · 📍 Actium)
  • With: Aristeus son of Pellichas Pellichas Callicrates Timanor Timanthes
  • “they put out to sea to meet the enemy with a fleet of eighty sail (forty were engaged in the siege of Epidamnus), formed line, and went into action, and gained a decisive victory, and destroyed fifteen of the Corinthian vessels.”
• The Athenians defeated the Potidæans and their allies; Callias was killed in the battle.(Book 1 · Chapter 2 · Part 6 · 📍 Potidæa)
  • With: Aristeus son of Adimantus
  • “The Potidæans and their allies had close upon three hundred killed; the Athenians a hundred and fifty of their own citizens, and Callias their general.”

Book 1 · Chapter 2 · Part 1

• child: Callicrates “The fleet was under the command of Aristeus, son of Pellichas, Callicrates, son of Callias, and Timanor, son of Timanthes;”

Book 1 · Chapter 2 · Part 6

• parent: Calliades “under the command of Callias, son of Calliades, and four colleagues.”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 1

• child: Hipponicus “under the command of Hipponicus, son of Callias, and Eurymedon, son of Thucles.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.