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Callias was the head of a wealthy Athens|Athenian
family, and fought at the battle of Marathon (490
BC|490) in priestly attire.

Some time after the death of Cimon, probably about
445 BC, he was sent to Susa to conclude with
Artaxerxes I, king of Persia, a treaty of peace
afterwards misnamed the Peace of Callias|peace of
Cimon. Cimon had nothing to do with it, and he was
totally opposed to the idea of peace with Persia.

At all events Callias's mission does not seem to
have been successful; he was indicted for high
treason on his return to Athens and sentenced to a
fine of fifty talents.

His son, Hipponicus was also a military commander.

See Herodotus vii. 151; Diodorus Siculus|Diod.
Sic. xii. 4; Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione, p.
428; George Grote|Grote recognizes the treaty as a
historical fact, History of Greece, ch. xlv.,
while Ernst Curtius|Curtius, bk. iii. ch. ii.,
denies the conclusion of any formal treaty; see
also Ed. Meyer, Forschungen., ii.; John Bagnell
Bury|JB Bury in Hermathena, xxiv. (1898).
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