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Headword:
Καλλίας
Adler number: kappa,213
Translated headword: Kallias, Callias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Athenian, comic poet, son of Lysimachos, who was nicknamed Schoinion [Ropey] because his father was a rope-plaiter. His plays are
The Egyptian,
Atalanta,
The Cyclopes,[1]
The Prisoners,
The Frogs,
The Idlers[2].
See [more] about Kallias under Aristeides.[3]
Greek Original:Καλλίας, Ἀθηναῖος, κωμικός, υἱὸς Λυσιμάχου: ὃς ἐπεκλήθη Σχοινίων διὰ τὸ σχοινοπλόκου εἶναι πατρός. οὗ δράματα Αἰγύπτιος, Ἀταλάντη, Κύκλωπες, Πεδῆται, Βάτραχοι, Σχολάζοντες. ζήτει περὶ Καλλίου ἐν τῷ Ἀριστείδης.
Notes:
C5 BC; see generally K.J.Dover in OCD(3) p.275, under
Callias(2).
[1] Quoted at
alpha 3750.
[2] An inscribed list (
IGUR 216.1-6 =
Callias test. 4 Kassel-Austin) of all the productions of a comic poet whose name has been lost, but who can be identified with fair certainty as Kallias, gives us two further titles,
The Satyrs and
The Iron [...]. It also supplies dates or approximate dates for several productions, all in the 440s and 430s.
[3]
Alpha 3903 (but not the same Kallias: rather, an earlier one who was a relative of Aristeides; see
Plutarch, Life of Aristeides 25). The confusion presumably arose because the fathers of both the poet and Aristeides had the name Lysimachos
Reference:
Kassel, Rudolf, and Colin Austin. "Callias." Poetae Comici Graeci iv. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983. 38-53.
Keywords: biography; comedy; mythology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 January 2002@00:52:48.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 14 January 2002@04:02:36.
Alan Sommerstein (Corrected translation (one word) and transliterations, expanded notes, added bibliography item.) on 9 June 2003@07:00:51.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 6 March 2008@08:06:11.
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