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Callisthenes of Olynthus ( ; ; c. 360 – 328 BC) was a Greek historian. He was the son of Hero (niece of Aristotle), the daughter of Proxenus of Atarneus and Arimneste, which made him the great nephew of Aristotle by his sister Arimneste. They first met when Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great. Through his great-uncle's influence, he was later appointed to attend Alexander the Great on his Asiatic expedition as the official historian.
Callisthenes can refer to any of the following:
- Callisthenes, a Greek historian
- Callisthenes (Syrian), a Syrian who was suspected in the burning of the gates of the Temple
- Callisthenes, a subgenus of the ground beetle genus Calosoma
Callisthenes (; , Kallisthenēs) was a Syrian who was believed to have been concerned in the burning of the gates of the Temple during the persecution to which the Jews were subjected in the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes. When the Jews were celebrating their subsequent victory over Nicanor (135 BC), they captured Callisthenes, who had taken refuge in a little house, and burned him to death. "And so he received a reward meet for his wickedness" (II Macc. viii. 33)