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    Callimedon (Ancient Greek: Καλλιμέδων) was an orator and politician at Athens during the 4th century BCE who was a member of the pro-Macedonian faction...
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    Menander. His early play Drunkenness contains an attack on the politician Callimedon. The oldest form of satire still in use is the Menippean satire by Menippus...
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    Dionysius Chalcus, after the god Archestratus Theophilus, contemporary with Callimedon Sosippus, contemporary with Diphillus Anaxippus, 303 BC Demetrius, 299...
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    speech from his early play Drunkenness is an attack on the politician Callimedon, in the manner of Aristophanes, whose bawdy style was adopted in many...
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  • were staged by Aristophanes’ son Philippus. He attacked Philocrates, Callimedon, Cydias, and Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse. Eubulus's plays were chiefly...
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    whose early play, Drunkenness, contains an attack on the politician, Callimedon. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal (1729) is an 18th-century Juvenalian...
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  • create an anti-Macedonian front. Together with another Athenian orator, Callimedon, Pytheas fled to Athens for the camp of Antipater and later traveled through...
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  • gathered here at the beginning of 4th century BCE. At the Heracleion, Callimedon's dinner club of "the Sixty" met. The deme, whose external part developed...
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  • Callicrates of Sparta Callicratidas Callidice Callimachus (polemarch) Callimedon Callinus Calliope Calliphon Calliphon of Croton Callippides Callippus...
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