Polycrates (sophist)

Polycrates (c.440-370 B.C. - flourished 4th century) was a sophist of Athens, who later retired to Cyprus.[1][2]

Works

He wrote a work variously titled (here given as), The Indictment of Socrates, thought written sometime during the 390's B.C. and also works, according to one source lauding, to another condemning, the individual Clytaemnestra, who was known to have murdered her husband, and Busiris who killed and ate his guests. In addition to this verses on cooking pots, mice, counters, pebbles and salt.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 John Lemprière. A Classical Dictionary containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in antient authors with the value of coins, weights and measures, used among the Greeks and Romans, and a chronological table. T Cadell 1893. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  2. 1 2 D Russell,St John's College Oxford. The Oxford Classical Dictionary (p.1176). Oxford University Press, 29 Mar 2012 ISBN 0199545561. Retrieved 2015-05-02.(ed. 440-370 first sourced at this)
  3. ↑ William Keith Chambers Guthrie - Socrates (p.11) Cambridge University Press, 1971 (reprint, revised) ISBN 0521096677 Volume 2 of Fifth-Century Enlightenment [Retrieved 2015-05-02]
  4. ↑ Volume 22, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica 1911. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  5. ↑ Jacqueline de Romilly - A Short History of Greek Literature (p.128) University of Chicago Press, 1985 ISBN 0226143120 [Retrieved 2015-05-02]
  6. ↑ Richard Bentley, Alexander Dyce - Anglistica and Americana (p.193-4) Georg Olms Verlag 1836 ISBN 3487401932 [Retrieved 2015-05-02]
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