Hypsicrates ( grc, Ὑψικράτης) the historian was a

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writer in

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who flourished in the 1st century BC. His work does not survive, but scholars have conjectures about the writer and his work. He was associated probably with

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and wrote a history of the area that was possibly used by

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. He may be the same Hypsicrates who served as a

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for

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and was freed by Caesar in 47 BC.

References

*McDonald, Alexander Hugh and Simon Hornblower. "Hypsicrates" in Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth, eds. ''The Oxford Classical Dictionary.'' London:

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, 2003. p. 739 *"Hypsikrates" in Ziegler, Konrat and Walther Sontheimer, eds. ''Der kleine Pauly.'' Munich: Artemis Verlag, 1975. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hyspicrates 1st-century BC Greek people 1st-century BC Romans 1st-century BC historians Ancient Greeks in Rome Greek-language historians from the Roman Empire Ancient Pontic Greeks Historians from Roman Anatolia