About Amphicrates of Athens
Amphicrates of Athens was a rhetorician, sophist and philosopher.
Amphicrates of Athens was a sophist and rhetorician (of the Asiatic school ).
Biographical information Amphicrates was forced to leave Athens (for his own safety from the hatred of later critics, additional sources show him instead only visiting his destination
His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence.
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Who was Amphicrates of Athens?
ancient Greek philosopher
When was Amphicrates of Athens born?
Amphicrates of Athens was born in Athens.
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Amphicrates of Athens was a rhetorician, sophist and philosopher.
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