(), a brother of Antigonus Gonatas, and father of
Alexander, the prince of Corinth. (Phlegon, de Mirab. 32; Justin, Prolog. xxxvi.)
Craterus distinguished himself as a diligent compiler of historical documents relative to
the history of Attica. He made a collection of Attic inscriptions, containing decrees of the
people (Aristeid.
32, Cim. 13.) This work is frequently referred to by Harpocration and
Stephanus of Byzantium, the latter of whom (s. v.
ad Aristoph. Av. 1073, Ran.
323.)
With the exception of the statements contained in these and other passages, the work of
Craterus, which must have been of great value, is lost. (Niebuhr, Kleine
Schrift. i. p. 225, note 39; Böckh, Pref. to his