There seems to be little dispute over the fact that Callimachus was neither as a sculptor nor an architect to be placed in the van of the distinguished artists of early Greece. As a sculptor, in which capacity he is best known by his works, his style was stilted and artificial, rendered so by the artist’s disposition to be finicky and fastidious in his execution. Indeed, he is said to have been unwearied in polishing and perfecting, and to have sacrificed the grand and sublime in the exercise of too great refinement and purity. Callimachus was never satisfied with himself, and possibly on that account others were not satisfied with him, as a certain degree of self-esteem is necessary to invite public approval. The Greeks gave him a name, based upon his peculiarities, which Pliny has translated as “_Calumniator Sui_.” His faculty for invention was evidenced in other respects also, as he is credited with having originated the art of boring marble, and Pausanius describes a golden lamp which he invented, and which he dedicated to Athene, which when filled with oil burned exactly a year without going out. It may be said broadly of the Grecian people in their employment of the three grand orders of architecture that the first two—namely, the Doric and Ionic—more closely harmonized with the dignity and nobility of their national character. In fact, Greece arrived at the pinnacle of her civilization and brought her philosophy of human existence not only in theory, but in practice, to its highest ideals before the Corinthian order of architecture appeared to claim a share in her artistic reputation. The stately solidity of the Doric and the graceful purity of the Ionic lent the perfection of architectural framework to the mental strength and loftiness of ideal of the Hellenic people. They seemed to accord with the philosophy that was originally preached from under the shadow of their pediments and entablatures. We can almost see the doubting and mystified Theon stepping from the Doric portico where Zeno held forth, to compare that philosopher’s stoical dogmas with the doctrines of Prudence preached in the Ionic-encompassed garden of Epicurus, by a philosopher ever destined to be misconstrued and wrongfully interpreted.