Crates of Thebes, a The Hellenistic period of Greek history was the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in 146 BC. Although the establishment of Roman rule did not break the continuity of Hellenistic society and culture, which...Hellenistic A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ...philosopher, was one of the This page is about the school of philosophy. ...Cynics and the teacher of Note: Zeno of Citium is not to be confused with Zeno of Elea. ...Zeno of Citium. Crates was from For the ancient capital of Upper Egypt, see Thebes, Egypt. ...Thebes and was a student of Diogenes, the Cynic, Greek philosopher, was born at Sinope about 412 BC, and died in 323 at Corinth, according to Diogenes Laërtius, on the day on which Alexander the Great died at Babylon. ...Diogenes of Sinope.

It is said that he lost his ample fortune owing to the Macedon (aka. ...Macedonian invasion, but a more probable story is that he sacrificed it in accordance with his principles, directing the banker, to whom he entrusted it, to give it to his sons if they should prove fools, but to the poor if his sons should prove philosophers.

He gave up his life to the attainment of virtue and the propagation of This article is in need of attention. ...ascetic self_control. His habit of entering houses for this purpose, uninvited, earned him the nickname "Door_opener". His marriage with Hipparchia, daughter of a wealthy Thrace is a historical and geographic area in south_east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north_eastern Greece, and European Turkey. ...Thracian family, was in curious contrast to the prosaic character of his life.

Attracted by the nobility of his character and undeterred by his poverty and ugliness, she insisted on becoming his wife in defiance of her father's commands. The date of his death is unknown, though he seems to have lived into the (2nd century _ 3rd century _ 4th century _ other centuries) Events The Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. ...3rd century.

His writings were few. According to Diogenes Laërtius, the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, and by others from the Roman family of the Laërtii. ...Diogenes Laërtius, he was the author of a number of letters on philosophical subjects; but those extant under the name of Crates are spurious, the work of later rhetoricians. Diogenes Laërtius credits him with a short poem, and several philosophic tragedies. Mestrius Plutarch (c. ...Plutarch's life of Crates is lost. The great importance of Crates' work is that he formed the link between Cynicism and the Stoicism is a school of philosophy commonly associated with such Greek philosophers as Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, or Chrysippus and with such later Romans as Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus. ...Stoics, Note: Zeno of Citium is not to be confused with Zeno of Elea. ...Zeno of Citium being his pupil.

This entry was originally from the (Redirected from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica) The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.