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Callicrates

Καλλικράτης

(Καλλικράτης), literary.

1. Is mentioned only once by Athenaeus (xiii. p. 586() as the author of a comedy called Μοσχίων, and from the connexion in which his name appears there with those of Antiphanes and Alexis, it may be inferred that he was a poet of the middle Attic comedy. (Meineke, Hist.. Crit. Com. Gr. p. 418.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 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.