Craterus (historian)
Craterus the Macedonian (
Life
In the 19th century, Meineke, Cobet, and Krech identified Craterus with the son of
This identification of the historian with Craterus the son of the general was first challenged in 1955 by Felix Jacoby and is no longer widely accepted. It is rejected by the most recent editors of Craterus' fragments, Donatella Erdas and Edwin Carawan.[3][4] Jacoby proposed that he was a peripatetic contemporary of Theophrastus, writing in the mid-fourth century BC. This argument is supported by the fact that Craterus' work seems not to have extended beyond the end of the fifth century.[4]
Works
As a historian Craterus distinguished himself as a diligent compiler of documents relating to the history of Attica. He made a collection of Attic inscriptions, containing decrees of the people (psephismaton synagoge) and out of them he seems to have constructed a diplomatic history of Athens.[5] This work is frequently referred to by Harpocration and Stephanus of Byzantium.[5] With the exception of the statements contained in these and other passages, the work of Craterus is lost.
References
- ^ Carawan 2017, p. T2-4.
- ^ Smith
- ^ Erdas 2002.
- ^ a b Carawan 2017.
- ^ a b "Craterus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Archived from the original on 2015-01-24. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
Bibliography
- Carawan, Edwin (2007). "Krateros the Macedonian (342)". In Worthington, Ian (ed.). Jacoby Online. Brill's New Jacoby, Part III. Leiden: Brill.
- Carawan, Edwin (2017). "Krateros the Macedonian (342)". In Worthington, Ian (ed.). Jacoby Online. Brill's New Jacoby - Second Edition, Part III. Leiden: Brill.
- Erdas, Donatella (2002). Cratero, il Macedone : testimonianze e frammenti. Tivoli: TORED. ISBN 8888617094.
- Harris, Edward (2021). "The Work of Craterus and the Documents in the Attic Orators and in the "Lives of the Ten Orators"". Klio. 103 (2): 463–504. .
- Higbie, Carolyn (1999). "Craterus and the Use of Inscriptions in Ancient Scholarship". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 129: 43–83. ISSN 0360-5949.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Craterus 1". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.