Amphicrates of Athens

Amphicrates of Athens[1] (Greek: Ἀμφικράτης) was a sophist[2] and rhetorician[3] (of the Asiatic school[4]).

Biographical information

Amphicrates was forced to leave Athens (for his own safety from the hatred of later critics,[5] additional sources show him instead only visiting his destination[6][3] ) in 86 B.C, living henceforward in Seleucia on the Tigris.[5] When responding to a plea for the creation of a rhetoric school in Seleucia he replied that he could not for

a dish cannot hold a dolphin[3][7][8]

His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence.[9]

See also

References
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  2. ebooksread.com Retrieved 2011-12-05
  3. William Woodthorpe Tarn The Greeks in Bactria and India. Cambridge University Press (2010). 24 June 2010. p. 42. ISBN 9781108009416. Retrieved 2011-12-05. ISBN 1108009417 (see also: Bactria)
  4. Aristotle, the poetics: Longinus, on the sublime, Demetrius of Phalerum on style (1953) translated by William Hamilton Fyfe books.google.co.uk [Retrieved 2011-12-05] Harvard University Press
  5. Aristóteles, Longino, Demetrio Falereo, Stephen Halliwell, Donald Andrew Russell, William Rhys Roberts. Translated by W. H. Fyfe Poetics. Harvard University Press, 1995. 22 December 2005. p. 140. ISBN 9781139448437. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
  6. Jacob Neusner (1968) books.google.co.uk A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Volume 1 [Retrieved 2011-12-05] Brill Archive)
  7. John Boardman books.google.co.uk [Retrieved 2011-12-05] Cambridge University Press, 1951 see google.com
  8. Graham Anderson (1986) books.google.co.uk Philostratus: biography and belles lettres in the third century A.D. [Retrieved 2011-12-05] Taylor & Francis ISBN 0-7099-0575-0
  9. Plutarch ebooksread.com (Lucull. 22.) [Retrieved 2011-12-05]
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