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Καλλίας · Kallias, Callias (κ 213) · Suda

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κ209Kallesios, Kalesios
κ210Kaletorides, Caletorides
κ211hut; grotto
κ212Kallianeira, Callianira
κ213Kallias, Callias
κ214Kallias, Callias
κ215Kallias is moulting
κ216Caligula
κ217beautiful-womened

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Καλλίας

Kallias, Callias

Translated by Catharine Roth13 Jan 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

biography
comedy
mythology
trade and manufacture

3 notes · 37 words

Translation

Athenian, comic poet, son of Lysimachos, who was nicknamed Schoinion [Ropey] because his father was a rope-plaiter. His plays are The Egyptian, Atalanta, The Cyclopes,¹ The Prisoners, The Frogs, The Idlers².
See [more] about Kallias under 'Aristeides'.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Καλλίας, Ἀθηναῖος, κωμικός, υἱὸς Λυσιμάχου· ὃς ἐπεκλήθη Σχοινίων διὰ τὸ σχοινοπλόκου εἶναι πατρός. οὗ δράματα Αἰγύπτιος, Ἀταλάντη, Κύκλωπες, Πεδῆται, Βάτραχοι, Σχολάζοντες. ζήτει περὶ Καλλίου ἐν τῷ Ἀριστείδης.

Betacode

*kalli/as, *)aqhnai=os, kwmiko/s, ui(o\s *lusima/xou: o(\s e)peklh/qh *sxoini/wn dia\ to\ sxoinoplo/kou ei)=nai patro/s. ou(= dra/mata *ai)gu/ptios, *)atala/nth, *ku/klwpes, *pedh=tai, *ba/traxoi, *sxola/zontes. zh/tei peri\ *kalli/ou e)n tw=| *)aristei/dhs.

Notes (3)

C5 BCE; see generally K.J. Dover in OCD(4) under Callias(2).
1Quoted at alpha 3750. ↩
2An inscribed list (IGUR 216.1-6 = Callias test. 4 Kassel-Austin) of all the productions of a comic poet whose name has been lost, but who can be identified with fair certainty as Kallias, gives us two further titles, The Satyrs and The Iron [...]. It also supplies dates or approximate dates for several productions, all in the 440s and 430s. ↩
3alpha 3903 (but not the same Kallias: rather, an earlier one who was a relative of Aristeides; see Plutarch, Life of Aristeides 25). The confusion presumably arose because the fathers of both the poet and Aristeides had the name Lysimachos.

References

Kassel, Rudolf, and Colin Austin. "Callias." Poetae Comici Graeci iv. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983. 38-53

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Neighbouring entries

κ211Καλιάhut; grotto κ212ΚαλλιάνειραKallianeira, Callianira κ213ΚαλλίαςKallias, Callias κ214ΚαλλίαςKallias, Callias κ215Καλλίας πτερορρυεῖKallias is moulting

Revision history6 revisions · last 4 Aug 2014

4 Aug 2014Revised — David Whitehead
25 Jan 2013coding — Catharine Roth
24 Jan 2013cosmetics — David Whitehead
6 Mar 2008another keyword — David Whitehead
9 Jun 2003Corrected translation (one word) and transliterations, expanded notes, added bibliography item. — Alan Sommerstein
14 Jan 2002augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
13 Jan 2002Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Καλλίας (Adler number kappa 213), trans. Catharine Roth, 13 Jan 2002. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/213

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, Alan Sommerstein, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗