Callicrates of Sparta

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Callicrates a Spartan, is mentioned by Herodotus as the finest and handsomest man of all the Greeks of his time. He was slain by an arrow just before the armies engaged at Plataea (b. c. 479), and while the Greeks were waiting till the signs from the sacrifices should be favourable. (Herod, ix. 72.) In Herod, ix. 85, his name occurs among the iranes (Spartan youths) who were buried separately from the rest of the Spartiates and from the Helots.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).