Callistratus

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Callistratus may refer to:

• Callistratus (grammarian)
• Callistratus (jurist), Roman legal writer
• Callistratus (sophist)
• Callistratus of Aphidnae, Athenian politician
• Callistratus, an Athenian poet, only known as the author of a hymn in honor of Harmodius and Aristogeiton
• Callistratus, the producer of Aristophanes' comedies Banqueters, Babylonians and Acharnians (and his collaborator in the production of Birds, Lysistrata, and Frogs)
• Domitius Callistratus, a historian of perhaps the 1st century BC, author of local histories of Heraclea Pontica and Samothrace
• Callistratus, a saint of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches who is said to have inspired forty-nine soldiers to Christian martyrdom in Carthage in the 4th century AD

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