Cratippus

Cratippus in Wikipedia

Cratippus of Athens Cratippus (Ancient Greek: Κράτιππος; fl. c. 375 BC), was a Greek historian. There are only three or four references to him in ancient literature, and his importance derives from his being identified by several scholars (e.g. Blass) with the author of the historical fragment discovered by Grenfell and Hunt. The fragment itself wa...

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Cratippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κράτιππος). A Peripatetic philosopher of Mitylené, accompanied Pompey in his flight after the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48. He afterwards settled at Athens, where the young M. Cicero was his pupil in B.C. 44. By the elder Cicero's influence, Cratippus received the gift of Roman citizenship from Caesar....

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