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HOW IT WORKS
Echecrates
Summary
In
ancient Greece
,
Echecrates
(
Greek
:
Ἐχεκράτης
) was the name of the following men:
Echecrates of Thessaly
, a military officer of
Ptolemy IV Philopator
, documented around 219–217 BC.
A son of
Demetrius the Fair
(c. 285–250 BC) by Olympias of Larissa, and brother of
Antigonus III Doson
. He had a son named
Antigonus
after his uncle.
[1]
Three Pythagorean philosophers mentioned by
Iamblichus
:
[2]
A
Locrian
, one of those to whom
Plato
is said to have gone for instruction.
[3]
The name
Caetus
in
Valerius Maximus
[4]
is perhaps an erroneous reading for Echecrates.
A
Tarentine
, probably the same who is mentioned in Plato's
Ninth Letter
.
Echecrates of Phlius
, a contemporary with
Aristoxenus
the Peripatetic.
[5]
References
edit
^
Liv. xl. 54; see vol. i. pp. 187, 189, b.
^
Vit. Pyth. ad fin.
^
Cic. de Fin. v. 29.
^
viii. 7, Ext. 3
^
Diog. Laërt. viii. 46; comp. Gell. iv. 11; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec.
i. p. 861.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Elder, Edward
(1870). "Echecrates". In
Smith, William
(ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
. Vol. 2. p. 2.