He was possibly from Boeotia, but nothing certain is known of his life. He is known to have worked in marble, bronze, gold, and ivory, and was famed for statues of horses.
According to Pausanias (9.16.1), Calamis produced a statue of Zeus Ammon for Pindar, and at 9.22.1 mentions a Hermes Criophorus for Tanagra, which was later depicted on Roman coinage of the city. His status of Apollo Alexikakos stood in the Ceramicus of Athens. He produced his most ambitious work, a 30-cubit statue of Apollo for Apollonius Pontica (Pliny 34.29, Strabo 7.319). His Sosandra was praised by Lucian, and may have been copied for Aspasia, which in turn was copied by the Romans.
CALAMIS, an Athenian sculptor of the first half of the 5th century B.C. He made statues of Apollo the averter of ill, Hermes the ram-bearer, Aphrodite and other deities, as well as part of a chariot group for Hiero, king of Syracuse.
His works are praised by ancient critics for delicacy and grace, as opposed to breadth and force.
Archaeologists are disposed to regard the bronze charioteer recently found at Delphi as a work of Calamis; but the evidence is not conclusive (see Greek Art).
Calamis, being the scientist he was, could tell just by the texture of the little insect in his throat that it was a cockroach.
Calamis had just swallowed and was in the process of digesting a super-strength serum with a small side of one cockroach.
Calamis (well, I don’t know if he’d be called a “Mr.” considering the state he was in) ran blindly across the lab, sending many test tubes and unnamable animal parts crashing to the floor, in either an explosion of glass or a puddle of blood, depending on what was hitting the floor first.
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