Callistratus
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Callistratus may refer to:
- Callistratus of AphidnaeCallistratus of AphidnaeCallistratus of Aphidnae was an Athenian orator and general in the 4th century BCE.For many years, as prostates, he supported Spartan interests at Athens, recognizing that Thebes posed a greater threat to Athens. In 371 BC he was one of the crafters of the peace treaty between Athens and Sparta...
, Athenian politician of the 4th century BC - Callistratus (grammarian)Callistratus (grammarian)Callistratus, Alexandrian grammarian, flourished at the beginning of the 2nd century BC. He was one of the pupils of Aristophanes of Byzantium, who were distinctively called Aristophanei. Callistratus chiefly devoted himself to the elucidation of the Greek poets; a few fragments of his...
, Alexandrian writer of the 2nd century BC - Callistratus (jurist)Callistratus (jurist)Callistratus, a Roman jurist, who, as appears from passages in Justinian's Digest, wrote at least as late as the reign of Septimius Severus and Caracalla.-Associations:In a passage of the Augustan History Callistratus, a Roman jurist, who, as appears from passages in Justinian's Digest, wrote at...
, Roman legal writer active in the 3rd century AD - Callistratus (sophist)Callistratus (sophist)Callistratus, Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd century AD. He wrote Ekphraseis , descriptions of fourteen works of art in stone or brass by distinguished artists...
, Greek writer of the 3rd or 4th century AD - Callistratus, an Athenian poet, known only as the author of a drinking song in honor of Harmodius and AristogeitonHarmodius and AristogeitonHarmodius and Aristogeiton were two men from ancient Athens...
(c. 500 BC) - Callistratus, the producer of AristophanesAristophanesAristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
' comedies Banqueters, Babylonians and AcharniansThe AcharniansThe Acharnians is the third play - and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays - by the great Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BCE on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate, Callistratus, and it won first place at the Lenaia festival...
(and his collaborator in the production of Birds, Lysistrata, and Frogs), a historian of perhaps the 1st century BC, author of local histories of Heraclea PonticaHeraclea PonticaHeraclea Pontica , an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus. It was founded by the Greek city-state of Megara c.560-558 and was named after Heracles who the Greeks believed entered the underworld at a cave on the adjoining Archerusian promontory .The...
and SamothraceSamothraceSamothrace is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a self-governing municipality within the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,723 . Its main industries are fishing and tourism. Resources on the island includes granite and... - Callistratus, a saint of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches who is said to have inspired forty-nine soldiers to Christian martyrdom in Carthage in the 4th century AD