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Crates

Κράτης

(Κράτης), of TARSUS, an Academic philosopher, is expressly distinguished by Diogenes Laertius (2.114, 117) from Crates of Athens, with whom he has been often confounded.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.