Callias
Family: Athenian · Role: negotiator of peace · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 8
In Book 1, Chapter 8, Callias negotiated peace between the Greeks and Artaxerxes. Later in Book 1, he was said to have offered a statue of Aphrodite, designed by Calamis, and to have dedicated a seated statue of Athene, designed by Endœus.
In Book 10, Chapter 18, at Delphi, Callias dedicated a horse from his personal gains in the Persian war; he was identified as the son of Lysimachides.
Relationship record
Life events
- Callias negotiated peace between the Greeks and Artaxerxes.(Book 1 · Chapter 8)
- With: Artaxerxes
- “Callias who negotiated peace, as most of the Athenians say, between the Greeks and Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes.”
- Callias dedicated a horse as a votive offering from his personal war gains.(Book 10 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Delphi)
- “The horse, which is next the statue of Sardus, was they say the votive offering of the Athenian Callias (the son of Lysimachides), out of his own personal gains in the Persian war.”
Book 1 · Chapter 8
- with Artaxerxes (Callias negotiated peace with Artaxerxes.) “Callias who negotiated peace, as most of the Athenians say, between the Greeks and Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes”
Book 1 · Chapter 23
- with Aphrodite (interaction) “near her a statue of Aphrodite, which they say was a votive offering of Callias”
- with Calamis (interaction) “a votive offering of Callias, designed by Calamis”
Book 1 · Chapter 26
- with Endœus (Callias dedicated a statue designed by Endœus.) “The statue of Athene sitting is by him, with the inscription that Callias dedicated it and Endœus designed it.”
- with Athene (Callias dedicated the statue of Athene.) “The statue of Athene sitting is by him, with the inscription that Callias dedicated it and Endœus designed it.”
Book 6 · Chapter 6
- with Micon (Micon made Callias's statue.) “the third is Callias, the Athenian pancratiast, by the Athenian painter Micon”
Book 10 · Chapter 18
- parent: Lysimachides “The horse, which is next the statue of Sardus, was they say the votive offering of the Athenian Callias (the son of Lysimachides), out of his own personal gains in the Persian war.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.