CALLIMACHUS, an Athenian sculptor of the second half of the 5th century B.C. Ancient critics associate him with Calamis. He is given credit for two inventions, the Corinthian column and the running borer for drilling marble. He made a golden lamp for the Erechtheum (Pans. I. xxvi., 2). His "dancing La conian maidens" was a work "of flawless precision," but spoilt, like his other sculptures, by over-elaboration of detail. (Pliny, Nat. His., xxxiv. 92.) See A. Furtwangler (trans. E. Sellars), Masterpieces of Ancient Sculpture, p. 437 ff.