Callippus of Athens

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Callippus of Athens was the host of Dion in Athens. Callippus is also mentioned as one of Plato's students. In 366 BC, Callippus aided the exile Callistratus travel to Thasos, for which Apollodorus prosecuted him. In 357 BC, Callippus, his brother Philostratus and Plato's nephew Speusippus then aided Dion take over Syracuse. In 354 BC, Callippus and his brother betrayed Dion, themselves governing Syracuse for 13 months. Callippus and his brother were overthrown by Dion's nephew, Hipparinus. Callippus was murdered by the Pythagorean Leptines in 350 BC.

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• Diogenes Laertius, Life of Plato. Translated by C.D. Yonge.
• Nails, Debra, People of Plato, p. 78.