A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Αὐτόλυκος), a young Athenian of singular beauty, the object of the affection of

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Callias. It is in honour of a victory gained by him in the pentathlum at the Great Panathenaea that Callias gives the banquet described by Xenophon. (Comp. Athen. 5.187.)

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