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Callistratus

Callistratus may refer to:

  • Callistratus of Aphidnae (died c. 350 BC), Athenian politician of the 4th century BC
  • Callistratus (grammarian), Alexandrian writer of the 2nd century BC
  • Callistratus (jurist), Roman legal writer active in the 3rd century AD
  • Callistratus (sophist), 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 Aristogeiton (c. 500 BC)
  • Callistratus, the producer of Aristophanes' comedies Banqueters, Babylonians and Acharnians (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 Pontica and Samothrace

  • 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
  • Callistratus, previous name of a Canadian Research Vessel, later renamed the CCGS W. E. Ricker
Callistratus (sophist)

Callistratus , Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd (or possibly 4th) century AD. He wrote Ekphraseis (also known by the Latin title Statuarum descriptiones, and Greek title Ἐκφράσεις), descriptions of fourteen works of art in stone or brass by distinguished artists. This little work is usually edited with the Eikones of Philostratus (whose form it imitates).

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 commentaries have been preserved in the various collections of scholia and in Athenaeus. He was also the author of a miscellaneous work called Summikta , used by the later lexicographers, and of a treatise on courtesans (Athenaeus iii.125b, xiii.591d).

Callistratus (jurist)

Callistratus, a Roman jurist, who, as appears from passages in Justinian's Digest, wrote at least as late as the reign (AD 198–211) of Septimius Severus and Caracalla.