Crates (name)
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Crates is a Greek given name (Κράτης), pronounced as two syllables. It may refer to:
- Crates (comic poet) (probably fl. late 450s or very early 440s BC), Old Comedy poet and actor from Athens
- Crates (engineer), 4th century BC engineer who accompanied Alexander the Great
- Crates of Thebes (c. 365-c. 285 BC), Hellenistic Cynic philosopher
- Crates of Athens (died 268-264 BC), Polemon's successor as head of the Platonic Academy
- Crates of Mallus, 2nd century BC Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher
- Crates of Tralles, a rhetorician
See also
[edit]- Danny Crates (born 1973), British former Paralympic sprinter
- Crate (disambiguation)
- Crates Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
- Craits, a card game sometimes spelled Crates
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