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Caucalus

Καύκαλος

(Καύκαλος), of Chios, a rhetorician, of whom an culogium on Heracles is mentioned by Athenaeus (x. p. 412), who also states that he was a brother of the historian Theopompus. It is very probable, that Suidas and Photius (s. v. Λήμνιον κακόν) refer to our rhetorician, itn which case the name Καύκασος must be changed into Καύκαλος.

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.