Callimedon

He is described as brash and antidemocratic,[1] and was surnamed ὁ Κάραβος (ho Kárabos)—"The Crayfish," "Crab" or, more likely, "Spiny Lobster"[2]—because, according to Athenaeus, he was very fond of the food.

[3] He has been identified with a man called "Callimedon of Collytus, son of Callicrates," on a late fourth-century Attic inscription recording the lease of a mine.

[7] As a member of an elite family, Callimedon had access to the upper rungs of the Athenian social ladder and he appears to have been regarded as something of a local celebrity and raconteur.

[9] Dinarchus reports that Demosthenes attempted to prosecute Callimedon in 324 BCE for conspiring with Athenian exiles in Megara to replace the democracy with an oligarchy under Macedonian control.

[10] Following the death of Alexander in 323 BCE, the democratic interests in the Greek cities once again attempted to unite against Macedon, and Callimedon together with Pytheas (Athenian) fled Athens for the camp of Antipater.