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Callisteia

καλλιστεῖα

Callisteia (καλλιστεῖα), contests for beauty, festivals celebrated in different parts of Greece. (Schol. ad Il. 9.128; Suidas, s. v.; Anth. Pal. 9.189; Athen. 13.609.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.