Amphicrates
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Amphicrates the rhetorician
in the texts
Vitae philosophorum
Author of Upon Illustrious Men, cited for the claim that Theodorus was condemned to drink the hemlock.
And Amphicrates in his book Upon Illustrious Men says he was condemned to drink the hemlock.
Lucullus
An exiled Athenian rhetorician who dies at Tigranes's court after falling into disfavor with Cleopatra.
Amphicrates, the rhetorician, also lost his life at the court of Tigranes, if, for the sake of Athens, we may make some mention of him too.