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Cratippus (Ancient Greek: Κράτιππος; fl. c. 375 BC), was a Greek historian. There are only three or four references to him in ancient literature, and his importance derives from his being identified by several scholars (e.g. Blass) with the author of the historical fragment discovered by Grenfell and Hunt. The fragment itself was published in Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. v, and is known as the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. It may be regarded as a fairly certain inference from a passage in Plutarch (De Gloria Atheniensium, p. 345 E, ed. Bernardakis, ii. p. 455) that he was an Athenian writer, intermediate in date between Thucydides and Xenophon, and that his work continued the narrative of Thucydides, from the point at which the latter historian stopped (410 BC) down to the Battle of Cnidus.
Further reading
- Gomme, A. W. (1954). "Who Was ‘Kratippos’?". The Classical Quarterly 4: 53–55. doi:10.1017/S0009838800007886.
- Lehmann, Gustav A. (1976). "Ein Historiker namens Kratippos". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 23: 265–288. ISSN 00845388.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.Categories:- Classical era Greek historians
- Ancient Athenian historians
- 4th-century BC Greek people
- 4th-century BC historians
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