Callicrates of Samos
Callicrates of Samos | |
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Native name | Καλλικράτης |
Allegiance | Second Syrian War |
Callicrates or Kallikrates (
Career
Callicrates originated from
He was commander of the
During the lifetime of Arsinoe II the sibling monarchs and Callicrates received a tribute from his home island of Samos.[4] Around the year 257 BC he was instructed to build a temple to Isis and Anubis at Canopus on behalf of Ptolemy II.[5] That same year, he instructed his agent Zoilos to write to the chief finance minister of Egypt, Apollonius in regard to his request to pay the navy tax, and to also remind Apollonius that both Oromachos and Deinon were liable for the same tax demand.[6]
Callicrates is also known for the erection of a temple on Cape Zephyrion near Alexandria, where Arsinoë II was worshipped as Aphrodite. This foundation is documented in a poem by Posidippus, and became one of the most important cult sites of Hellenistic Egypt. At Olympia, Greece he had constructed what must have been enormous statues of both King Ptolemy II and his sibling (sister wife) Queen Arsinoe II that stood on separate bases reportedly 24 meters wide.[7]
Callicrates himself was honoured by statues at
Footnotes
- ISBN 9780198748472.
- ISBN 9789047424208.
- ISBN 9781449716189.
- ^ Dittenberger, Wilhelm. (1903). Oriental Greek Inscriptions. Volume I, Leipzig. No. 29, pp. 3-4.
- ISBN 9781107007758.
- ^ "Letter from Zoilos to Apollonios (HGV: P.Mich. 1 100)". papyri.info/hgv/1999/work. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. 1999. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
- ISBN 9780486149417.
- ISBN 3-406-47154-4, p.298.
Sources
- Hauben, Hans (2013). "Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon, champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy". In Buraselis, Kostas; Stefanou, Mary; Thompson, Dorothy J. (eds.). The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power. Cambridge University Press. pp. 39–65. ISBN 9781107033351.