Philosopher

Crates of Mallus

Overview

Crates of Mallus (Ancient Greek: Κράτης ὁ Μαλλώτης, Krátēs ho Mallṓtēs; fl. 2nd century BC) was a Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher, leader of the literary school and head of the library of Pergamum. He was described as the Crates from Mallus to distinguish him from other philosophers by the same name. His chief work was a critical and exegetical commentary on Homer. He is also famous for constructing the earliest known globe of the Earth. Crates Bay, in Antarctica, is named after Crates of Mallus.

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Philosophers who discussed Crates of Mallus

• Panaetius
• Xenophanes

Ideas Crates of Mallus discusses

• Aristophanes
• Athens
• Grammar
• Homer
• Philosophy
• Hesiod
• Literature
• Geography
• Stoicism
• North America
• Odyssey
• Rome
• Theogony
• Alexandria
• Greeks
• Literary criticism
• Strabo
• Agriculture
• Earth
• Euripides

Place in the tradition

Part of Xenophanes.

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