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{{Short description|4th-century BC Macedonian general}}
{{other uses|Calas (disambiguation)|Callas (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Hellespontine Phrygia.jpg|thumb|Location of Hellespontine Phrygia, and the provincial capital of [[Dascylium]], in the [[Achaemenid Empire]], c. 500 BC.]]
'''Calas''' or '''Callas''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Κάλας or Κάλλας; lived 4th century BC) was an [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]], son of [[Harpalus]] of [[Elimiotis]] and first cousin to [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]], king of Asia.

==Asian campaign of Philip II==
Calas held a command in the army which [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]] sent into [[Anatolia]] under [[Parmenion]] and [[Attalus (general)|Attalus]], 336 BC, to further his cause among the Greek cities there. In 335 BC Calas was defeated in a battle in the [[Troad]] by [[Memnon of Rhodes]], but took refuge in Rhaeteum.{{r|Diodorus}} 

==Campaigns of Alexander the Great==
At the [[Battle of the Granicus]] in 334 BC he led the [[Thessalia]]n cavalry in [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]]'s army, and was appointed by him in the same year to the [[satrap]]y of the Lesser or [[Hellespontine Phrygia]], to which [[Paphlagonia]] was soon after added.{{r|Arrian}} Excluding a failed attempt to conquer [[Bithynia]]{{r|Memnon}}, we do not hear of Calas: it would seem, however, that he died before the treason and flight of his father in 325, as we know from [[Arrian]] that [[Demarchus]] succeeded him in the satrapy of the [[Hellespontine Phrygia]] during Alexander's life-time.

==References==
*[[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]] (editor); ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051217003224/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0568.html "Calas"]}}, [[Boston]], (1867)

==Notes==
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<ref name=Diodorus>[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica]]'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0084&layout=&loc=16.91 XVI. 91], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0084&layout=&loc=17.7 XVII. 7]</ref>

<ref name=Arrian>Arrian, ''[[Anabasis Alexandri]]'', [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book1a.asp I. 14], [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book2a.asp II. 4]; [[Quintus Curtius Rufus|Curtius Rufus]], ''Historiae Alexandri Magni'', [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/trois.htm III. 1]; Diodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0084&layout=&loc=17.17 XVII. 17]</ref>

<ref name=Memnon>[[Memnon of Heraclea|Memnon]], ''History of Heracleia'', [http://www.attalus.org/translate/memnon1.html#12 12]</ref>
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[[Category:Ancient Macedonian generals]]
[[Category:Generals of Alexander the Great]]
[[Category:Ancient Elimiotes]]
[[Category:4th-century BC deaths]]
[[Category:4th-century BC Greek people]]
[[Category:Satraps of the Alexandrian Empire]]
[[Category:Year of birth unknown]]
[[Category:Hellespontine Phrygia]]