Craterus (historian)

For other people of the same name, see Craterus (disambiguation).

Craterus was a Macedonian historian. He 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He distinguished himself as a diligent compiler of historical documents relating to the history of Attica.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^{[citation needed]}. 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^{[citation needed]}.

With the exception of the statements contained in these and other passages, the work of Craterus, which must have been of great value^{[according to whom?]}, is lost.

References

• 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

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