Nicholas Kalliakis was born of
Greek ancestry in
Candia,
Crete which was under control of Venice (present-day
Greece) in 1645. He migrated to
Rome where he stayed for ten years, becoming one of the outstanding teachers of
Greek and
Latin, he was ultimately made doctor of philosophy and theology. He moved to
Venice in 1666 where he was appointed professor of
Aristotelian philosophy and of the Greek and Latin languages. He was appointed Director of the Greek college (the Collegio Flangini) in Venice from 1665 to 1676. In 1677 Nicholas Kalliakis was invited to
Padua and took the chair of professor of the
belles-lettres and of
philosophy and
rhetoric. He wrote
treatises on the antiquities of
Greece and
Rome and studied the dance in classical antiquity, his principal work is the
De ludis scenicis mimorum et pantomimorum syntagma. He remained in Padua until 1707 where he died. ==See also==