Callimachus (polemarch)

Callimachus († 490 BC at Marathon ) is a politician and military leader in ancient Athens was at the beginning of the 5th century BC

A native of the deme Aphidnai Callimachus was determined Polemarchos for the year 490/489 to the Archon. In this assignment he was eleventh member of the Quorum of the ten strategists who exercised the supreme command of the Athenian forces. As a Persian punitive expedition against Athens was going on and had landed in Attica, he should have submitted to coaxing the leading strategists Miltiades the deciding vote in the decision to fight. Under Miltiades ' command the Athenians were victorious at the Battle of Marathon. Callimachus commanded in this battle, as it was traditional for the Archon Polemarchus, the right wing with his tribe Aiantis and fell while trying to attack the Persian ships.

The memory of Callimachus was kept in a painting in the Stoa Poecile at Athens and by an epigram of a well- acclaimed Callimachus votive offerings, the Nike of Callimachus, alive.