its being to an outside entity upon which it depended. Plutarch likewise attests that he
adopted a non-literal reading of the creation-process like Xenokrate ̄s and others (Anim. Procr.
1013A–B), and saw the psychogony as a means of expounding various powers eternally
inherent in the World-Soul. The construction of the World-Soul was from Same, Different,
Divided, and Undivided since these were the fundamentals of the universe that it would
need to apprehend, and cognition involved internal elements that matched its external
objects (1012D–13F ). He arranged the numbers that were the basis of the Soul’s numerical
ratios (Tim. 36a–b) in a lambda shape, with 2, its square, and its cube on one side, and 3, its
square, and its cube on the other; he also used the number 384, in lieu of one, to illustrate
the filling in of the intervals without using fractions (1020C).
H.J. Mette, “Zwei Akamediker heute. Krantor von Soloi und Arkesilaos von Pitane,” Lustrum 26 (1984) 7–
94; Dillon (2003) 216–231; Harold Tarrant, ed., Proklos: Commentary on Plato’s Timaios v.1 (2006): intro.
Harold Tarrant
Krateros of Antioch (50 – 25 BCE)
A, in G CMLoc 7.5 (13.96 K.), quotes Krateros’ analgesic for patients
suffering from phthisis and blood-spitting compounded from myrrh, mandrake, opium,
henbane, saffron, frankincense, etc., and taken with honey-wine. A P., in
G Antid. 2.8 (14.147 K.), preserves the prophylactic antidote of K T used
by some Krateros. The pharmacist is traditionally identified with the Greek physician
who cured Attica in 45 BCE (C Att. 12.13.1, 12.14.4), and was known to Horace
(Sat. 2.3.161); although the arkhiatros (130– 115 BCE) of Antiokhos VII and tropheus of
Antiokhos VIIII might be meant.
RE 11.2 (1922) 1622 (#4), H. Gossen and F.E. Kind; Watson (1966) 24, 83; KP 3.327, F. Kudlien; BNP
3 (2003) 915 (#4), V. Nutton.
Alain Touwaide
Krate ̄s (Geom.) (ca 150 – 130 BCE)
According to D L 4.23 (following De ̄me ̄trios of Magnesia), an otherwise
unknown Krate ̄s wrote a Geo ̄metrika (cf. S 2.5.2, 2.5.4, 2.5.6, and H, Metr. 1.pr),
between K M and Krate ̄s of Tarsos.
Netz (1997) #128.
PTK
Krate ̄s (Agric.) (325 – 90 BCE)
Agricultural writer whose work was excerpted by C D (V, RR
1.1.9–10); the name in the MSS should perhaps be corrected to K, the doctor
whose illustrated herbal P (25.8) lists before Cassius’.
RE 11.2 (1922) 1634 (#15), W. Kroll.
Philip Thibodeau
Krate ̄s (Med.) (50 BCE – 30 CE)
T M, Book 63, in P 4.15 (CMG 10.1.1, p. 9), cites his
hudrophobia-remedy: apply rust, salt, and calf-fat to the spleen; retain the patient’s urine
KRATE ̄S (MED.)