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Crates of Thebes
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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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Crates of Thebes’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Xenocrates of Chalcedon· 396 BCE–314 BCE
- Heraclides Ponticus· 390 BCE–310 BCE
- Hegesippus· 390 BCE–
- Hyperides· 390 BCE–322 BCE
- Lycurgus· 390 BCE–324 BCE
- Aeschines· 389 BCE–314 BCE
- Philip of Opus· 385 BCE–
- Demosthenes· 384 BCE–322 BCE
- Aristotle· 384 BCE–322 BCE
- Demades· 380 BCE–319 BCE
- Aristoxenus· 375 BCE–315 BCE
- Theophrastus· 371 BCE–287 BCE
- Dinarchus· 360 BCE–290 BCE
- Hecataeus of Abdera· 360 BCE–290 BCE
- Dicaearchus of Messana· 360 BCE–285 BCE
- Pyrrho· 360 BCE–270 BCE
- Demetrius of Phaleron· 350 BCE–280 BCE
- Menander· 342 BCE–290 BCE
- Epicurus· 341 BCE–270 BCE
- Crantor· 340 BCE–275 BCE
- Herophilus of Chalcedon· 335 BCE–280 BCE
- Strato of Lampsacus· 335 BCE–269 BCE
- Zeno of Citium· 334 BCE–262 BCE
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus· 331 BCE–278 BCE
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Mesopotamian world
Rulers world
- Lysimachus· 360 BCE–281 BCE
- Seleucus I Nicator· 358 BCE–281 BCE
- Chandragupta Maurya· –297 BCE
- Alexander the Great· 356 BCE–323 BCE
- Demetrius I Poliorcetes· 337 BCE–283 BCE
- Antigonus I Monophthalmus· 382 BCE–301 BCE
- Bindusara· –273 BCE
- Pyrrhus of Epirus· 319 BCE–272 BCE
- Philip II of Macedon· 382 BCE–336 BCE
- Ashoka the Great· 304 BCE–232 BCE
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