Epicrates

Epicrates of Ambracia in Wikipedia

Epicrates of Ambracia (Greek: Επικράτης Αμβρακιώτης), was an Ambraciote who lived in Athens, a comic poet of the Middle Comedy, according to the testimony of Athenaeus (x. p. 422, f.), confirmed by extant fragments of his plays, in which he ridicules Plato and his disciples, Speusippus and Menedemus, and in which he refers to the courtesan Lais of ...

Read More

Epicrătes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Of Ambracia; an Athenian writer of the Middle Comedy (Aelian, N. A. xii. 10)....

Read More