Crates of Thebes
c. 365 BCE–c. 285 BCE · Thebes
Leading Cynic after Diogenes; gave away his wealth, and as teacher of Zeno of Citium is the bridge from Cynicism to Stoicism.
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About Thebes
The chief city of Boeotia—rich in myth as the home of Oedipus and the Seven against Thebes, birthplace of the great lyric poet Pindar, and, for one brief generation, the dominant military power of all Greece.
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