Kallistratos

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Callistratus or Kallistratos may refer to:

• Callistratus of Aphidnae (died c. 350 BC), Athenian politician of the 4th century BC. Kallistratos of Aphidnae (Ancient Greek: Καλλίστρατος, Latinized: Callistratus; bef. 415–aft. 355 BCE) was an Athenian orator and general in the 4th century BCE.
• Callistratus (grammarian), Alexandrian writer of the 2nd century BC. Callistratus, Alexandrine 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 (Σύμμικτα), used by the later lexicographers, and of a treatise on courtesans (Athenaeus iii.125b, xiii.591d).
• Callistratus (jurist), Roman legal writer active in the 3rd century AD
• Callistratus (sophist), Greek writer of the 3rd or 4th century AD. Callistratus (Koinē Greek: Καλλίστρατος), Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd (or possibly 4th) century CE. 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, an Athenian poet, known only as the author of a drinking song in honor of Harmodius and Aristogeiton (c. 500 BC)
• Callistratus, producer of some of Aristophanes' plays and his sometime collaborator
• Domitius Callistratus [de], a historian of perhaps the 1st century BC, author of local histories of Heraclea Pontica and Samothrace
• Callistratus of Carthage, a Christian saint who is said to have inspired forty-nine soldiers to martyrdom in Carthage in the 4th century
• Callistratus of Georgia (1866–1952), catholicos-patriarch of All Georgia from 1932