CALLICRATES

kəlĭkˈrətēz, 5th cent. b.c., Greek architect. In association with Ictinus he built (447–432 b.c.) the Parthenon at Athens. At Athens also he designed (c.427) the Temple of Nike.

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books on: Callicrates  - 151 results

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German Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment
Book by Robert R. Heitner; University of California Press, 1963
Subjects: German Drama (Tragedy)--History And Criticism, German Drama--18th Century--History And Criticism
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The Histories of Polybius - Vol. 2
Book by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh; Macmillan, 1889
Subjects: Greece--History, History, Ancient, Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C
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Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories
Book by Craige B. Champion; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Civilization, Classical--Historiography, Greece--Politics And Government--To 146 B.C--Historiography, History, Ancient--Historiography, Polybius--Historiae, Rome--Politics And Government--265-30 B.C--Historiography
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Polybius, Rome, and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections
Book by Frank W. Walbank; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Hellenism--Historiography, History, Ancient--Historiography, Polybius, Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C--Historiography
...thinks, due largely to the failure of the Lycortas group to appreciate the need for full collaboration with Rome. 134 Callicrates, he contends, had the right idea about relations with Rome. In an article of 1995 D. W. Baronowski analyses the events leading...
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Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities
Book by Paul Cartledge, Antony Spawforth; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Sparta (Extinct City)--History
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Nietzsche on the Cross: The Defence of Personal Freedom in the Birth of Tragedy
Journal article by Wayne A. Borody; Humanitas, Vol. 16, 2003
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Philosophy--Research, Wagner, Richard
...essentially aporetic/apodictic culture of logos celebrated by the ancient Greeks. Without even mentioning the likes of Hippocrates, Callicrates or Euclid, it goes without saying that the pursuit of science (episteme) was as intrinsic to the Hellenistic sensibility...
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Same-Sex Desire, Ethics and Double-Mindedness: The Correspondence of Henry Graham Dakyns, Henry Sidgwick and John Addington Symonds
Journal article by Howard J. Booth; Journal of European Studies, 2002
Subjects: Dakyns, Henry Graham--Records and correspondence, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Social aspects, Homosexuality--History, Letters (Correspondence)--Criticism and interpretation, Letters (Correspondence)--History, Letters (Correspondence)--Social aspects, Letters--Criticism and interpretation, Letters--History, Letters--Social aspects, Sidgwick, Henry--Records and correspondence, Symonds, John Addington--Records and correspondence, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Social aspects
...of Whitman. He began a correspondence with the American poet, and in 1872 he sent Whitman a poem from his cycle entitled Callicrates. (55) This sense of double mindedness is also stressed by Symonds in his discussions of dreams. Symonds wrote to Dakyns...


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magazine articles on: Callicrates  - 16 results

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Letters
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 213, February 2003
...Libeskind. I cannot believe that anyone can understand that message unless they have read the script beforehand. Did Ictinus and Callicrates or Palladio require people to read a textbook before visiting their work? Can it be that both these buildings, which have...
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Browser
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 211, February 2002
Subjects: Architecture--Services, Online services--Services, Web sites--Analysis
...approach. You imagine that the respected and ferocious web-usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, would approve. Ictinus at last - and Callicrates too Some sites we have looked at during the last few years have disappeared into the black hole of Cyberspace. But not...
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Sliced Toast
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 214, July 2003
...maps, tours, news, interiors, dining, unbuilt design, links and a search page. No, since you were going to ask, theres no Callicrates or Ictinus which is just as well since this is about contemporary Edinburgh architecture and not the old stuff. There are...
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Dictionary of Architecture
Magazine article by Peter Davey; The Architectural Review, Vol. 205, June 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...He thinks of buildings as products of multi-dimensional human culture which ranges from plumbing to Plato, carpentry to Callicrates. Drawings by Curl and John Sambrook (and sometimes others), illustrate tricky points of physicality. The Orders are, as...
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Beauty Secrets of the Parthenon
Magazine article; World and I, Vol. 24, January 2009
Subjects: Greek temples--Buildings and facilities, Greek temples--Materials, Parthenon--Buildings and facilities, Temples, Greek--Buildings and facilities, Temples, Greek--Materials
...think so--my beauty is classic, my artistry classless. Those in charge of my upbringing (the famous Pheidias, Ictinus and Callicrates) took great pains that I grew properly. Even now, I look gorgeously straight and symmetrical only because I am not. My columns...
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encyclopedia articles on: Callicrates  - 5 results

 
 
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Callicrates
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CALLICRATES k lik r tez, 5th cent. b.c., Greek architect. In association with Ictinus he built (447 432 b.c.) the Parthenon at Athens...
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Parthenon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...under Pericles between 447 b.c. and 432 b.c., it is the culminating masterpiece of Greek architecture. Ictinus and Callicrates were the architects and Phidias supervised the sculpture. The temple is peripteral, with eight Doric columns at each...
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Ictinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...His celebrated work is the Parthenon (447 432 b.c.) upon the acropolis at Athens, which he built with the architect Callicrates as associate. Ictinus also built the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, near Phigalia, c.430 b.c. and is said to have...
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Pericles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...splendor of Athens. He became a great patron of the arts and encouraged drama and music. Under his direction Ictinus and Callicrates, Phidias and others produced such monuments as the Parthenon and the Propylaea on the Acropolis. Pericles established colonies...
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Greek Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...from 480 b.c. to 323 b.c. That incredibly productive era includes the reign of Pericles in Athens, in which the architects Callicrates , Mnesicles , and Ictinus flourished and in which the Parthenon and other great works were produced. After the passing...


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