The ancient Greek architect Callicrates (also spelled Kallikrates) designed the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis in Athens. With the architect Ictinus he is also credited with designing the Parthenon. It is known from an inscription of 449 BC that the Athenian Senate commissioned Callicrates to construct a temple to the goddess Athena Nike.

The period in which all the major masterpieces were erected extended from 480 B.C. to 323 B.C. That incredibly productive era includes the reign of Pericles in Athens, in which the architects Callicrates, Mnesicles, and Ictinus flourished and in which the Parthenon and other great works were produced. This temple sacred to Athena, on the acropolis at Athens. Built under Pericles between 447 B.C. and 432 B.C., it is the culminating masterpiece of Greek architecture. Ictinus and Callicrates were the architects and Phidias supervised the sculpture.