ARCHITECT

Work
Cited by Pausanias and Plutarch. His major works are:

- The Parthenon: The famous temple on the Acropolis in Athens. Built in 447 - 438 BC in collaboration with Ictinus.

- The Temple of Athena Nike: Acropolis of Athens, 427-424 BC. This temple was offered to the city by Hipponicus, and was one of the first Ionic order temples built in continental Greece. Amphistylar, with 4 columns. The frieze and the marble parapet around the elevated base were added after the temple had been completed and inaugurated and the statue of Athena set in its place (around 420 BC). Callicrates also designed the altar.

- Repair and reinforcement of the walls of the Acropolis: The lower part is built of large blocks of stone and the upper of brick. The average thickness of these walls is 3.60 metres.

- The Temple of Artemis: Athens. 449 BC. On the eastern bank of the Ilisos, near the spring of Callirrhoe. Ionic order, with 4 columns on two sides. Base 14.60 x 7.8 metres. Sketched in 1762 by Stuart and Revett. Destroyed by the Turks in 1778. Fragments of the frieze are preserved in the "Museum of Pergamum" in Berlin.

- TheTemple of Apollo (of the Athenians): Delos 425-417 BC. Doric order, amphistylar, with 6 columns on each side.

- The Long Walls: 449-446 BC. The Long Walls were built to protect the road between Athens and Piraeus. They ran in parallel, 1 stade (160 metres) apart, for 6000 metres between the two cities, with the road between them. Thucydides described the fortifications, and the distances have been confirmed by I. Travlos. Pericles ordered the construction of the south wall; the north wall had been built during the time of Themistocles. Between the two was a temple to Theseus. The walls remained intact for 54 years; they were destroyed in 404 BC, when the Spartans occupied Athens, and rebuilt by Conon (393 BC), who strengthened them with towers and other fortifications. Sections of the walls remained standing until the 19th century. They were described by travellers Wheeler and Stuart in 1676, who recorded that the walls were built of large square blocks of stone on a solid rock foundation, the whole (foundations and superstructure) being 4 metres thick. The walls began at the city gate of Piraeus, and followed a line more or less corresponding to the present-day Piraeus Road. They rose to a height of 20 metres, and were punctuated at frequent intervals by towers. Three octagonal towers in the south wall were still standing at that time, the easternmost 10 metres tall and 5 metres wide, the other two somewhat smaller (8 x 5).