Crates

Greek actor and author

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Died:: before 424 bc, Athens, Greece

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Crates (died before 424 bc, Athens, Greece) was an ancient Greek actor and author of comedies. He is considered one of the lesser poets of Attic Old Comedy; his contemporaries were Cratinus and Aristophanes. Crates acted in comedies by Cratinus before he turned to writing. He won three victories at the theatrical contests held as part of the Great Dionysia. About 60 fragments of his work have survived. Of the approximately 15 known titles, the following are certainly authentic: Neighbours, Dionysus, Heroes, Animals, Lamia, Games, Public Speakers, Samians, and Acts of Violence. Crates was dead by the time Aristophanes praised ...(100 of 172 words)

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