Crates
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Crates can mean:
- Plural of "crateCrateA crate is a large shipping container, often made of wood, typically used to transport large, heavy or awkward items. A crate has a self-supporting structure, with or without sheathing. For a wooden container to be a crate, all six of its sides must be put in place to result in the rated strength...
", pronounced as one syllable - A GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
name (Κράτης), pronounced as two syllables:- Crates (comic poet), the poet of Old Comedy, and actor
- Crates of ThebesCrates of ThebesCrates of Thebes, was a Cynic philosopher. Crates gave away his money to live a life of poverty on the streets of Athens. He married Hipparchia of Maroneia who lived in the same manner that he did. Respected by the people of Athens, he is remembered for being the teacher of Zeno of Citium, the...
, the Hellenistic Cynic philosopher - Crates (engineer)Crates (engineer)Crates or Craterus was a mining and hydraulic engineer , who accompanied Alexander the Great. He was entrusted with draining Lake Copais in Boeotia and contributed to the construction of Alexandria...
of Alexander the Great - Crates of MallusCrates of MallusCrates, of Mallus in Cilicia , was a Greek language grammarian and Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century BC, leader of the literary school and head of the library of Pergamum. His chief work was a critical and exegetical commentary on Homer...
, the Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher - Crates of AthensCrates of AthensCrates of Athens was the son of Antigenes of the Thriasian deme, the pupil and eromenos of Polemo, and his successor as scholarch of the Platonic Academy, in 270/69 BC...
, PolemonPolemon (scholarch)Polemon of Athens was an eminent Platonist philosopher and Plato's third successor as scholarch or head of the Academy from 314/313 to 270/269 BC...
's successor as head of the Platonic AcademyPlatonic AcademyThe Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC... - Crates of TrallesCrates of TrallesCrates of Tralles , an orator or rhetorician in the school of Isocrates. David Ruhnken assigns to him the logoi dēmēgorikoi which Apollodorus ascribes to the Academic philosopher, Crates. Gilles Ménage is wrong in supposing that Crates is mentioned by Lucian. The person there spoken of is...
, the rhetorician