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Crates is a Greek given name (Κράτης), pronounced as two syllables. It may refer to: * Crates (comic poet) (probably fl. late 450s or very early 440s BC), Old Comedy poet and actor from Athens * Crates (engineer), 4th century BC engineer who accompanied Alexander the Great * Crates of Thebes (c. 365-c. 285 BC), Hellenistic Cynic philosopher * Crates of Athens (died 268-264 BC), Polemon's successor as head of the Platonic Academy * Crates of Mallus, 2nd century BC Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher * Crates of Tralles, a rhetorician See also * Danny Crates (born 1973), British former Paralympic sprinter * Crate (other) * Crates Bay, Antarctic Peninsula * Craits Craits (sometimes spelled Crates or Creights) is a shedding card game for two to five players. It was invented in the 1970s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is derived from Crazy Eights, which forms the origin of its name. Craits is similar to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crates (comic Poet)
Crates ( el, Κράτης) was an Athenian Old Comic poet, who was victorious three times at the City Dionysia, first probably in 450 BC. His career had apparently ended by 424 BC, when Aristophanes portrays him in ''The Knights'' as a figure from the past. Before he began writing, he was an actor for Cratinus. Aristotle claims in the '' Poetics'' that Crates was the first comic poet to create complete plots, rather than personal abuse, and his surviving fragments support this. His style of comedy was apparently therefore rather different from that of Aristophanes' more political and topical works, and by the end of the fourth century BC this was the dominant style of comedy.} He was also supposedly the first Athenian comic poet to write a drunk character. Sixty fragments (four uncertain) survive. According to the SudaCrates, Test. 1 and an anonymous writer on comedy, he wrote seven plays; another source says eight. Eleven titles are attributed to him: *''Geitones'' ("Neig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crates (engineer)
Crates ( el, Κράτης) or Craterus (Κρατερός) was a mining (μεταλλευτής ''metalleutes'') and hydraulic engineer, who accompanied Alexander the Great. He was entrusted with draining Lake Copais in Boeotia and contributed to the construction of Alexandria. It appears that Crates may have been an Olynthian who settled in the Euboean mother-city, Chalcis, after the destruction of Olynthus Olynthus ( grc, Ὄλυνθος ''Olynthos'', named for the ὄλυνθος ''olunthos'', "the fruit of the wild fig tree") was an ancient city of Chalcidice Chalkidiki (; el, Χαλκιδική , also spelled Halkidiki, is a peninsula and ... in 348 BC. References *''Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great'' by Waldemar Heckel {{authority control 4th-century BC Greek people Engineers of Alexander the Great Ancient Euboeans Ancient Olynthians Ancient Greek engineers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crates Of Thebes
Crates ( grc-gre, Κράτης ὁ Θηβαῖος; c. 365 – c. 285 BC) of Thebes was a Greek Cynic philosopher, the principal pupil of Diogenes of Sinope and the husband of Hipparchia of Maroneia who lived in the same manner as him. Crates gave away his money to live a life of poverty on the streets of Athens. Respected by the people of Athens, he is remembered for being the teacher of Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism. Various fragments of Crates' teachings survive, including his description of the ideal Cynic state. Life Crates was born c. 365 BC in Thebes. He was the son of Ascondus, and was the heir to a large fortune, which he is said to have renounced to live a life of Cynic poverty in Athens. Diogenes Laërtius preserves several different accounts of this story; one of them has Crates giving his money away to the citizens of Thebes, apparently after seeing the beggar king Telephus in a tragedy; whereas another account has him placing his money in the hands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crates Of Athens
Crates of Athens (Greek: Κράτης ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; died 268–264 BC) was a Platonist philosopher and the last scholarch of the Old Academy. Biography Crates 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. 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. The epigram, according to him, reads: "Stranger, who passest by, relate that here The God-like Crates lies, and Polemo; Two men of kindred nobleness of mind; Out of whose holy mouths pure wisdom flowed, And they with upright lives did well display, The strength of all their principles and teaching." The most distinguished of the pupils of Crates were the philosopher Arcesilaus, who succeeded him as scholarch, Theodorus the Atheist, and Bion of Bory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crates Of Mallus
Crates of Mallus ( grc-gre, Κράτης ὁ Μαλλώτης, ''Krátēs ho Mallṓtēs''; century BC) was a Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher, leader of the literary school and head of the library of Pergamum. He was described as the Crates from Mallus to distinguish him from other philosophers by the same name. His chief work was a critical and exegetical commentary on Homer. He is also famous for constructing the earliest known globe of the Earth. Life He was born in Mallus in Cilicia, and was brought up at Tarsus, and then moved to Pergamon, and there lived under the patronage of Eumenes II, and Attalus II. He was the founder of the Pergamon school of grammar, and seems to have been at one time the head of the library of Pergamon. Among his followers were Hermias (Κρατήτειος Ἑρμείας mentioned in sch. Hom. ''Il''. 16.207a), Zenodotus of Mallus and Herodicus of Babylon. He visited Rome as ambassador of either Eumenes, in 168 BC, or Attalus in 159 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crates Of Tralles
Crates of Tralles (Greek: Κράτης), an orator or rhetorician in the school of Isocrates. David Ruhnken assigns to him the ''logoi dēmēgorikoi'' which Apollodorus of Athens ascribes to the Academic philosopher, Crates. Gilles Ménage is wrong in supposing that Crates is mentioned by Lucian.''Rhet. Praecept.'' 9. The person there spoken of is Critias Critias (; grc-gre, Κριτίας, ''Kritias''; c. 460 – 403 BC) was an ancient Athenian political figure and author. Born in Athens, Critias was the son of Callaeschrus and a first cousin of Plato's mother Perictione. He became a leading ... the sculptor. Notes References *{{SmithDGRBM Ancient Greek rhetoricians People from Tralles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Crates
Daniel Brian Crates (born 9 February 1973) is a British former athlete, who specialised in 800m Sprint (running), sprinting. He is a former Paralympic world record holder in this event, and won gold medals in a number of international competitions, including the Paralympic Games, European Championships and World Championships. He also plays competitive Rugby union, rugby and is a qualified diving instructor. Crates was born in Orsett, Essex. He took up athletics after losing his right arm in a car accident while in Australia in 1994. He competed in T46 (arm amputee) events and represented Britain at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney – winning the bronze medal in the 400m sprint, and at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens where he won gold in the 800m. After Sydney, Crates switched from the 400m to the 800m, in which he holds the world record with a time of 1:53.27 set in 2004 at the Amateur Athletic Association, AAA Championships. Crates also won gold in the 800m race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crate (other)
A crate is a large strong container, often made of wood. Crate may also refer to: * Crate Township, Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States * Crate Entertainment, a US video game developer * CrateIO, a fully searchable document oriented data store * Cajón or crate, a percussion instrument in Peru * Modular crate electronics * "The Crate", a 1979 short story by Stephen King * Ilyushin Il-14 (NATO reporting name: Crate), a Soviet aircraft * Chuck Crate (1916–1992), Canadian fascist and leader of the Canadian Union of Fascists * Gabe Crate (born 1977), American cartoonist, writer, and storyboard artist * Crate engine, an automobile engine spec replacement shipped in a crate container. Crate Late Model and Crate Modified are classes named after the specification * Crates (name), a given name and surname * Crates (comic poet) (probably fl. late 450s or very early 440s BC), Old Comedy poet and actor from Athens * Crates (engineer), 4th century BC engineer who accompanied Alexande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crates Bay
Crates Bay ( bg, залив Кратес, ‘Zaliv Krates’ \'za-liv 'kra-tes\) is the 8 km wide bay indenting for 6 km the northeast coast of Stresher Peninsula, Graham Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula. It is part of Holtedahl Bay, entered southeast of Starmen Point and northwest of the headland formed by Lens Peak. Conway Island lies in the central part of the bay. Crates Bay was formed as a result of glacier retreat during the last three decades of the 20th century. The feature is named after the Greek philosopher Crates of Mallus (2nd century BC) who placed the southern polar land envisaged by Aristotle as two areas on the earliest globe representing the Earth. Location Crates Bay is centred at . British mapping in 1976. Maps * British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
