Callimachus (600–489 BCE)

Born 600 BCE, died 489 BCE.

Callimachus (Ancient Greek: Καλλίμαχος, romanized: Kallímakhos) was the Athenian polemarch at the Battle of Marathon, which took place during 490 BC. According to Herodotus, he was from the Attica deme of Aphidna.

Text from the Wikipedia article Callimachus_(polemarch), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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