Callistratus

Callistratus in Wikipedia

Callistratus may refer to: * Callistratus of Aphidnae, 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 of ...

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Callistrătus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Καλλίστρατος). A Greek rhetorician, who probably flourished in the third century A.D. He was the author of descriptions of fourteen statues of celebrated artists-Scopas, for instance, Praxiteles, and Lysippus, written after the manner of Philostratus. His style is dry and affected, and he gives the reader no real insight into the qualities of the ...

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