( fl c. 470–c. 440 BC). Greek sculptor. Active in the Early Classical period, he worked primarily in bronze, although marble and chryselephantine statues are also recorded. He is frequently referred to as a Boiotian, but the evidence that he came from Athens is stronger. His most securely dated work is the group of two racehorses and riders that flanked Onatas’ chariot in the dedication of Hieron at Olympia; the group was set up after Hieron’s death in 467/466 BC. A group of praying boys attributed by Pausanias to Kalamis (Guide to Greece V.xxv.5) was also dedicated at Olympia, possibly in 450 BC. A base with his signature from the Athenian Agora dates to the 440s BC, and he was said to have made a Zeus Ammon for Pindar, who died in 438 BC. Pausanias’ comment (I.iii.4) that Kalamis’ Apollo in Athens received the epithet ‘Alexikakos’ after the plague of 429 BC need not be an indication of its date, while the Kalamis whose pupil Praxias died soon after beginning work on the pedimental statues for the Temple of Apollo at Delphi (Pausanias: X.xix.4) may have been a later sculptor.

• Kalamis
  • Greece, ancient, §IV, 2(iii)(a): Early Classical monumental sculpture
  • Greece, ancient, §IV, 2(iii)(b): High Classical monumental sculpture
  • attributions
    • Artemision Bronzes
    • Athens, §II, 1(ii)(b): Acropolis: Non-architectural sculpture
  • works
    • Black Sea colonies, §2: Western and southern
    • Tanagra, §2: Later Greek and Roman