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Crates of Thebes (Crates the Cynic, Krates), fl. c. 300 BC. Cynic philosopher and husband of Hipparchia. He was a student of Diogenes of Sinope, and a teacher of the Stoic Zeno of Citium.

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• Diogenes Laertius: Life of Crates

  http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlcrates2.htm
  From Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge.

• The Last Attachment: A Dialogue on War and the State

  http://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/stoa/lastattc.htm
  An imaginary dialogue between Crates and his student Zeno, by Jan Garrett.

• Wikipedia: Crates of Thebes

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crates_of_Thebes
  Entry from this openly-edited encyclopedia, including information from the 1911 Britannica.

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