(), of ATHENS, was the son
of Antigenes of the Thriasian demus, the pupil and friend of Polemo, and his successor in the
chair of the Academy, perhaps about B. C. 270. The intimate
friendship of Crates and Polemo was celebrated in antiquity, and Diogenes Laertius has
preserved an epigram of the poet Antagoras, according to which the two friends were united
after death in one tomb. The most distinguished of the pupils of Crates were the philosopher
Arcesilaüs, Theodorus, the founder of a sect called after him, and Bion Borysthenites.
The writings of Crates are lost. Diogenes Laertius says, that they were on philosophical
subjects, on comedy, and also orations ; but the latter were probably written by Crates of
Tralles. [CRATES of Tralles.] (D. L.
4.21-23.)