Callias

Callias (flourished 4th century bce) was an Athenian who was ridiculed by the comic poets for his youthful extravagance; later in life, he was a successful military commander and diplomat. The grandson of the diplomat Callias, he was the butt of jokes in the plays of Aristophanes and other poets and was attacked by the orator Andocides in his speech “On the Mysteries.” But Callias was on friendly terms with the Athenian philosophers, and his...