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[comic poet] Callias (Καλλίας), sometimes called by the nickname Schoenion (Σχοινίων), was a poet of the Old Comedy, not to be confused with the three Athenian aristocrats named Callias, the last of which, Callias III, appears in Plato`s Protagoras. Callias is best known for a few extant fragments of a comedy, The Letter Trag...
Athenian ridiculed by the comic poets for his youthful extravagance; later in life he was a successful military commander and diplomat. The grandson ...diplomat and a notable member of one of the wealthiest families of ancient Athens.