Crates of Athens

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Crates of Athens (Greek: Κράτης; died 268-265 BC) was the son of Antigenes of the Thriasian deme, the pupil and friend of Polemo, and his successor as scholarch of the Academy, perhaps about 270 BC. The intimate friendship of Crates and Polemo was celebrated in antiquity, and Diogenes Laertius has preserved an epigram of the poet Antagoras, according to which the two friends were united after death in one tomb. The most distinguished of the pupils of Crates were the philosopher Arcesilaus, Theodorus, the founder of a sect called after him, and Bion of Borysthenes. The writings of Crates are lost. Diogenes Laertius says that they were on philosophical subjects, on comedy, and also orations; but the latter were probably written by Crates of Tralles.

[edit] Ancient sources

• Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers iv.21-23: Life of Crates (trans. Yonge)

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).[1]