CALLISTRATUS, Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd century. He wrote Ekphraseis, descriptions of 14 works of art in stone or brass by distinguished artists. This little work is usually edited with the Eikones of Philostratus. BIBLIOGRAPHY. See F. Jacobs, Animadversiones criticae in Cal listrati statuas (1797) ; edition by Schenkl-Reisch (Teubner series, 1902) ; also C. G. Heyne, Opuscula Academica, v., pp. 196-221, with commentary on the Descriptiones.