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Crates of Tralles

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Crates of Tralles (Greek: Κράτης) was an orator or rhetorician in the school of Isocrates.[1]

David Ruhnken (1768)[2] assigns to Crates of Trallus the logoi dēmēgorikoi which Apollodorus of Athens ascribes[3] to the Academic philosopher Crates of Athens. Further, Ruhnken writes, Gilles Ménage[4] was wrong in supposing that Crates was mentioned by Lucian:[5] the person mentioned by Lucian is Critias,[6] an Athenian sculptor.

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  1. ^ Diogenes Laërtius 4.23
  2. ^ David Ruhnken (1768). "Crates, Trallianus". Historia Critica Oratorum Graecorum. Reprinted in David Ruhnken (1823). Opuscula varii. Vol. 1. London. p. 370. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  3. ^ Apollodorus of Athens, Commentary on Diogenes Laërtius, 4.23
  4. ^ Gilles Ménage, Commentary on Diogenes Laërtius, 4.23
  5. ^ Lucian. Rhetorum Praeceptor. Vol. 9.
  6. ^ William Smith (ed.). "Critias (3)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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