Calas (general)

4th-century BC Macedonian general

For other uses, see Calas (disambiguation) and Callas (disambiguation).

Satrap

Calas

Native name|

Κάλας

Born| 4th century BC
Disappeared| before 325 BC
Allegiance| Macedonia
Rank| General
Battles / wars| Wars of Alexander the Great
Battle of the Granicus
Relations| Harpalus (father)
Location of Hellespontine Phrygia, and the provincial capital of Dascylium, in the Achaemenid Empire, c. 500 BC.

Calas or Callas (Greek Κάλας or Κάλλας; lived 4th century BC) was an ancient Greek, son of Harpalus of Elimiotis and first cousin to Antigonus, king of Asia.

## Asian campaign of Philip II

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Calas held a command in the army which Philip II sent into Anatolia under Parmenion and Attalus, 336 BC, to further his cause among the Greek cities there. In 335 BC Calas was defeated in a battle in the Troad by Memnon of Rhodes, but took refuge in Rhaeteum.[1]

## Campaigns of Alexander the Great

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At the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC he led the Thessalian cavalry in Alexander's army, and was appointed by him in the same year to the satrapy of the Lesser or Hellespontine Phrygia, to which Paphlagonia was soon after added.[2] Excluding a failed attempt to conquer Bithynia[3], we do not hear of Calas: it would seem, however, that he died before the treason and flight of his father in 325, as we know from Arrian that Demarchus succeeded him in the satrapy of the Hellespontine Phrygia during Alexander's life-time.

## References

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* Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Calas"[usurped], Boston, (1867)

## Notes

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1. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, XVI. 91, XVII. 7
2. ^ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, I. 14, II. 4; Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, III. 1; Diodorus, XVII. 17
3. ^ Memnon, History of Heracleia, 12

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Hellenistic satraps

Satraps under Alexander the Great
(334-323 BC)|

* Ada (Queen of Caria)
* Asander, Menander (Lydia)
* Calas, Demarchus (Hellespontine Phrygia)
* Antigonus (Greater Phrygia)
* Balakros, Menes (Cilicia)
* Abistamenes (Cappadocia)
* Abdalonymus (Sidon)
* Mithrenes (Armenia)
* Mazaeus, Stamenes (Babylon)
* Mazakes (Mesopotamia)
* Abulites (Susiana)
* Oxydates, Atropates (Media)
* Phrasaortes, Oxines, Peucestas (Persis)
* Cleomenes of Naucratis (Egypt)
* Satibarzanes (Aria)
* Sibyrtius (Carmania)
* Autophradates (Tapuri, Mardi)
* Andragoras (Parthia)
* Amminapes, Phrataphernes, Pharismanes (Hyrcania and Parthia)
* Artabazos, Cleitus the Black, Amyntas (Bactria)
* Oxyartes (Paropamisia)
* Philip, Eudemus (India)
* Peithon, son of Agenor (Gandhara)
* Taxiles (Punjab)
* Porus (Indus)

Satraps at the
Partition of Babylon
(323 BC)|

* Antipater (Macedon and Greece)
* Philo (Illyria)
* Lysimachus (Thrace)
* Leonnatus (Hellespontine Phrygia)
* Antigonus (Phrygia)
* Asander (Caria)
* Nearchus (Lycia and Pamphylia)
* Menander (Lydia)
* Philotas (Cilicia)
* Eumenes (Cappadocia and Paphlagonia)
* Ptolemy (Egypt)
* Laomedon of Mytilene (Syria)
* Neoptolemus (Armenia)
* Peucestas (Persis)
* Arcesilaus (Mesopotamia)
* Peithon (Greater Media)
* Atropates (Lesser Media)
* Scynus (Susiana)
* Tlepolemus (Persia)
* Nicanor (Parthia)
* Phrataphernes (Armenia, Parthia)
* Antigenes (Susiana)
* Archon (Pelasgia)
* Philip (Hyrcania)
* Stasanor (Aria and Drangiana)
* Sibyrtius (Arachosia and Gedrosia)
* Amyntas (Bactria)
* Scythaeus (Sogdiana)
* Oxyartes (Paropamisia)
* Taxiles (Punjab)
* Peithon, son of Agenor (Gandhara)
* Porus (Indus)

Satraps at the
Partition of Triparadisus
(321 BC)|

* Antipater (Macedon and Greece)
* Lysimachus (Thrace)
* Arrhidaeus (Hellespontine Phrygia)
* Antigonus (Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia)
* Cassander (Caria)
* Cleitus the White (Lydia)
* Philoxenus (Cilicia)
* Nicanor (Cappadocia and Paphlagonia)
* Ptolemy (Egypt)
* Laomedon of Mytilene (Syria)
* Peucestas (Persis)
* Amphimachus (Mesopotamia)
* Peithon (Media)
* Tlepolemus (Carmania)
* Philip (Parthia)
* Antigenes (Susiana)
* Seleucus (Babylonia)
* Stasanor (Bactria and Sogdiana)
* Stasander (Aria and Drangiana)
* Sibyrtius (Arachosia and Gedrosia)
* Oxyartes (Paropamisia)
* Taxiles (Punjab)
* Peithon, son of Agenor (Gandhara)
* Porus (Indus)

Later Satraps|

* Peithon, son of Agenor (Babylon)
* Sibyrtius (Arachosia, Drangiana)
* Eudemus (Indus)
* Bagadates, Ardakhshir I, Wahbarz, Vadfradad I, Vadfradad II, Alexander c. 220 BC (Persis)
* Andragoras (Parthia)
* Demodamas (Bactria, Sogdiana)
* Diodotus (Bactria)
* Alexander (Lydia)
* Molon c. 220 BC, Timarchus, c. 175 BC (Media)
* Apollodorus (Susiana)
* Ptolemaeus (Commagene)
* Noumenios, Hyspaosines c. 150 BC (Characene)

Hellenistic satraps were preceded by Achaemenid rulers, and followed or ruled by Hellenistic rulers

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Calas". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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