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Crates of Thebes

Crates of Thebes

c. 365 BCEc. 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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Influenced byDiogenes of SinopeCrates of ThebesShapedZeno of Citium