Craterus (historian)

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Craterus the Macedonian historian was brother of Antigonus II Gonatas, and father of Alexander (prince of Corinth). He distinguished himself as a diligent compiler of historical documents relating to the history of Attica. He made a collection of Attic inscriptions, containing decrees of the people (psephismaton synagoge) and out of them he seems to have constructed a diplomatic history of Athens. This work is frequently referred to by Harpocration and Stephanus of Byzantium, the latter of whom (s. v. Nymphaion quotes the ninth book of it. With the exception of the statements contained in these and other passages, the work of Craterus, which must have been of great value, is lost.

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
• Craterus and the Use of Inscriptions in Ancient Scholarship by Carolyn Higbie