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'''Cratippus''' (fl. c. [[375 BC]]), was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[historian]]. |
'''Cratippus''' (fl. c. [[375 BC]]), was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[historian]]. |
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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. [[Friedrich Blass|Blass]]) with the author of the historical fragment discovered by Grenfell and Hunt. The fragment itself was published in [[Oxyrhyncus|''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'']], vol. v. |
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. [[Friedrich Blass|Blass]]) with the author of the historical fragment discovered by Grenfell and Hunt. The fragment itself was published in [[Oxyrhyncus|''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'']], vol. v, and is known as the ''[[Hellenica Oxyrhynchia]]''. |
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It may be regarded as a fairly certain inference from a passage in [[Plutarch]] (''De Gloria Atheniensium'', p. 345 E, ed. Bernardakis, ii. p. 455) that he was an [[Athens|Athenian]] writer, intermediate in date between [[Thucydides]] and [[Xenophon]], and that his work continued the narrative of Thucydides, from the point at which the latter historian stopped ([[410 BC]]) down to the [[battle of Cnidus]]. |
It may be regarded as a fairly certain inference from a passage in [[Plutarch]] (''De Gloria Atheniensium'', p. 345 E, ed. Bernardakis, ii. p. 455) that he was an [[Athens|Athenian]] writer, intermediate in date between [[Thucydides]] and [[Xenophon]], and that his work continued the narrative of Thucydides, from the point at which the latter historian stopped ([[410 BC]]) down to the [[battle of Cnidus]]. |
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Revision as of 15:22, 27 March 2006
Cratippus (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 was published in Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. v, and is known as the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia.
It may be regarded as a fairly certain inference from a passage in Plutarch (De Gloria Atheniensium, p. 345 E, ed. Bernardakis, ii. p. 455) that he was an Athenian writer, intermediate in date between Thucydides and Xenophon, and that his work continued the narrative of Thucydides, from the point at which the latter historian stopped (410 BC) down to the battle of Cnidus.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.