Callistratus, active 3rd century-4th century

LC control no.	n 85185866
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Callistratus, active 3rd century-4th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Callistrate, active 3rd century-4th century Callistratus, active 3rd/4th century Kallistratos, active 3rd century-4th century
Beginning date	02
Ending date	03
Profession or occupation	Sophist Rhetorician
Found in	Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates sophistes grecs ... 1637: t.p. (Callistrate) Oxford classical dict., 2nd ed. (Callistratus; 3rd or 4th cent.; a sophist who wrote Ekphraseis (descriptions) of 14 statues) LC manual cat. (Callistratus, Sophista) Philostratorum et Callistrati opera, 1849: p. 415 (Kallistratou ... ) Wikipedia, Dec. 21, 2012 (Callistratus, Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd (or possibly 4th) century AD. He wrote Ekphraseis (also known by the Latin title Statuarum descriptiones), descriptions of fourteen works of art in stone or brass by distinguished artists. This little work, which is written in a dry and affected style, without any real artistic feeling, is usually edited with the Eikones of Philostratus (whose form it imitates))