Krato ̄n (Pharm.) (120 BCE – 25 CE)
C records his remedy for ear-infection: aloes, cassia, lukion, myrrh, and nard, in
honey and wine (6.7.2CD, cf. 6.18.2E). The Vatican MS, 1470 (13th c.), f.158, contains
(extracts of ?) the Prognostica de infirmorum uita ac morte by this man, or by K
A.
Diels 2 (1907) 25.
PTK
Krato ̄n (of Athens?) (80 – 120 CE)
P records a medical relative by marriage who, along with Z ( A?),
advised the sick to consume fish, since it was easier to digest: Table-Talk 1.4.1 (620A), 4.4.3
(669C). Cf. perhaps the Athenian homonym in IG II(2).5925.
RE 11.2 (1922) 1660 (#2), F.E. Kind.
PTK
Kratulos of Athens (ca 420 – 400 BCE)
A follower of H’ theory, which, radically modified, he taught to P.
Whereas He ̄rakleitos had said one cannot step twice into the same river, Kratulos main-
tained that one cannot step into it even once. (His interpretation of He ̄rakleitos seems to be
mistaken, but it was influential.) Kratulos also held that each thing has a proper name that is
natural to it, which may differ from the conventional name – a view difficult to reconcile
with his belief in radical flux. According to A, Plato got his views about the
instability of the sensible world from Kratulos.
DK 65; ECP 158 – 159, T.M. Robinson.
Daniel W. Graham
Krinas of Massalia (25 – 50 CE)
Physician, included in P’s entertaining catalogue of fashionable doctors of the early
Empire (29.9). Krinas earned an enormous fortune, partly spent on public works in
Massalia, by practicing iatromathematics at Rome. His technique was based on consult-
ing ephemerides, many fragments of which are extant among the Greek astronomical
papyri from Roman Egypt.
BNP 3 (2003) 943, V. Nutton.
Alexander Jones
Kritias of Athens (ca 430 – 403 BCE)
Born in Athens of a noble and wealthy family ca 455, first cousin of Periktione ̄, P’s
mother. Close friend of Alkibiade ̄s and pupil of So ̄crate ̄s, in 404 he led the government of
the Thirty Tyrants, of which he was the most radical and violent member (X,
Hellenica 2.3–4). He died in the battle of Mounikhia in 403. Kritias was a poet, author of
elegies (To Alkibiade ̄s), tragedies (Tennes, Rhadamantis, and Pirithous) and the satirical drama
Sisyphus, although many scholars maintain a Euripidean authorship for the dramas. He also
KRATO ̄N (PHARM.)