Calli'sthenes2. An Athenian orator, and, according to Plutarch, one of the eight whom [Alexander](alexander-the-great-bio-1), after the destruction of Thebes (B. C. 335), required to be delivered up to him,--on which occasion
Demosthenes is said to have quoted the fable of the wolf, who demanded from the sheep the
surrender of their dogs. Demades, however, who, it seems, received a fee of five talents for
the service, succeeded in propitiating [Alexander](alexander-the-great-bio-1), and in saving all whose lives were threatened, except the general
Charidemus. Arrian gives the number and list somewhat differently, and neither he nor Diodorus
mentions Callisthenes. (Plut. Dem. 23, Alex. 13; Diod. 17.15; Arr. Anab.
1.10.)