Amphicrates of Athens [1] ( Greek: Ἀμφικράτης) was a sophist [2] and rhetorician [3] (of the Asiatic school [4]).
Amphicrates was forced to leave Athens (for his own safety from the hatred of later critics, [5] additional sources show him instead only visiting his destination [6] [3] ) in 86 B.C, living henceforward in Seleucia on the Tigris. [5] When responding to a plea for the creation of a rhetoric school in Seleucia he replied that he could not for
His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence. [9]
Amphicrates of Athens [1] ( Greek: Ἀμφικράτης) was a sophist [2] and rhetorician [3] (of the Asiatic school [4]).
Amphicrates was forced to leave Athens (for his own safety from the hatred of later critics, [5] additional sources show him instead only visiting his destination [6] [3] ) in 86 B.C, living henceforward in Seleucia on the Tigris. [5] When responding to a plea for the creation of a rhetoric school in Seleucia he replied that he could not for
His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence. [9]