Crates of Athens

Crates of Athens, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle

Crates of Athens (Greek: Κράτης; died 268-264 BC^[1]) was the son of Antigenes of the Thriasian deme, the pupil and eromenos^[2] of Polemo, and his successor as scholarch of the Platonic Academy,^[3] in 270/69 BC. The intimate friendship of Crates and Polemo was celebrated in antiquity, and Diogenes Laërtius has preserved an epigram of the poet Antagoras, according to which the two friends were united after death in one tomb.^[3] The most distinguished of the pupils of Crates were the philosopher Arcesilaus, who succeeded him as scholarch, Theodorus the Atheist, and Bion of Borysthenes.^[4] The writings of Crates are lost. Diogenes Laërtius says that they were on philosophical subjects, on comedy, and also orations;^[4] but the latter were probably written by Crates of Tralles.

Notes

1. ^ Tiziano Dorandi, Chapter 2: Chronology, in Algra et al. (1999) The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, page 48. Cambridge.
2. ^ "ἐρώμενος Πολέμωνος" Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 21
3. ^ ^{a b} Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 21
4. ^ ^{a b} Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 23

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).[1]

External links

• Diogenes Laërtius, Life of Crates, translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925).