Calamis (5th century BC)

Calamis was a Greek sculptor. His work around 470-440 BC refers to the heyday of the graceful and delicate style of the older strict art before the great age of Phidias.

The chronological contradictions were sought in the research to be solved by the adoption of several sculptors same with varying allocation of the surviving works. Since no work is sufficiently identified certain Calamis remains an unknown quantity.

Ancient writers write him numerous works to: Pausanias saw on the Acropolis of Athens a statue of Aphrodite, Sosandra called that is listed by Lucian among the highest female statues; Furthermore, in the Kerameikos an Apollo.

In Tanagra in Boeotia were also according to the instructions of Pausanias, a Hermes as Aries carrier, Dionysus of Parian marble, and a Triton.

A cult statue of Zeus Ammon had consecrated in Thebes Pindar; a wingless Nike donated the Mantineier to Olympia, praying boy in the Bronze Agrigentum also to Olympia.

Two racehorses with boys it Calamis for the Olympics made ​​on behalf of Hieron.

After Delphi, the Spartans dedicated a Hermione. A Alcmene is praised by Pliny. The same also mentions a marble Apollo in the Servian Gardens in Rome, also a bronze colossal statue of Apollo, the Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus in 72 BC from Apollonia Pontica robbed and had set up in Rome on the Capitoline Hill.

Calamis was also famous as an engraver in silver.