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CALLIAS and HIPPONICUS, two names See also:

borne alternately by the heads of a wealthy and distinguished Athenian See also:family. During the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. the See also:office of daduchus or See also:torch-See also:bearer at the Eleusinian mysteries was the hereditary See also:privilege of the family till its extinction. The following members deserve mention. 1. CALLIAS, the second of the name, fought at the See also:battle of See also:Marathon (4go) in priestly attire. Some See also:time after the See also:death of See also:Cimon, probably about 445 B.C., he was sent to See also:Susa to conclude with See also:Artaxerxes, See also:king of See also:Persia, a treaty of See also:peace afterwards misnamed the " peace of Cimon." Cimon had nothing to do with it, and he was totally opposed to the See also:idea of peace with Persia (see CIMON). At all events Callias's See also:mission does not seem to have been successful; he was indicted for high See also:treason on his return to See also:Athens and sentenced to a See also:fine of fifty talents. See See also:Herodotus vii. 151; Diod. Sic. xii. 4; See also:Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione, p. 428; See also:Grote recognizes the treaty as a See also:historical fact, See also:History of See also:Greece, ch. xlv., while See also:Curtius, bk. iii. ch. ii., denies the conclusion of any formal treaty; see also Ed.

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Meyer, Forschungen, ii.; J. B. See also:Bury in Hermathena, See also:xxiv. (1898). 2. Hn'poNlcus, son of the above. Together with See also:Eurymedon he commanded the Athenian forces in the incursion into Boeotian territory (426 B.c.) and was slain at the battle of Delium (424). His wife, whom he divorced, subsequently became the wife of See also:Pericles; one of his daughters, Hipparete, married See also:Alcibiades; another, the wife of See also:Theodorus, was the See also:mother of the orator Isocrates. See See also:Thucydides iii. 91; Died. Sic. xii. 65; See also:Andocides, Contra Alcibiadem, 13.

3. CALLIAS, son of the above, the See also:

black See also:sheep of the family, was notorious for his profligacy and extravagance, and was ridiculed by the comic poets as an example of a degenerate Athenian (See also:Aristophanes, Frogs, 429, Birds, 283, and schol. Andocides, De Mysteriis, 110—131). The See also:scene of See also:Xenophon's See also:Symposium and See also:Plato's See also:Protagoras was laid at his See also:house. He was reduced to a See also:state of See also:absolute poverty and, according to See also:Aelian (See also:Var. Hist. iv. 23), committed See also:suicide, but there is no See also:confirmation of this. In spite of his dissipated See also:life he played a certain See also:part in public affairs. In 392 he was in command of the Athenian hoplites at See also:Corinth, when the Spartans were defeated by See also:Iphicrates. In 371 he was at the See also:head of the See also:embassy sent to make terms with See also:Sparta. The peace which was the result was called after him the " peace of Callias." See Xenophon, Hellenica, iv. 5, vi.

3 ; and DELIAx See also:

LEAGUE.

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