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Crates of Thebes

Crates of Thebes (Crates the Cynic, Krates), fl. c. 300 BC. Cynic philosopher and husband of Hipparchia. He was a student of Diogenes of Sinope, and a teacher of the Stoic Zeno of Citium.

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• - Brief encyclopedia entry on this Cynic teacher.
  
• - An imaginary dialogue between Crates and his student Zeno, by Jan Garrett.
  
• - Entry from this openly-edited encyclopedia, including information from the 1911 Britannica.
  
• - From Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge.
  
  

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