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Craterus
HISTORIAN
320 BC - 300 BC
Craterus
Craterus the Macedonian (Ancient Greek: Κρατερός ὁ Μακεδών, romanized: Krateros ho Makedōn; 321 – c. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Craterus has received more than 286,835 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Craterus is the 446th most popular historian (down from 370th in 2019).
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Among historians, Craterus ranks 446 out of 561. Before him are Robert Jay Lifton, Hugo Falcandus, Mikheil Tsereteli, Joseph Hergenröther, Martin Gilbert, and Zdeněk Nejedlý. After him are Niall Ferguson, Riane Eisler, Anton Heinrich Springer, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, David Marshall Lang, and Eberhard Jäckel.
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Among people born in 320 BC, Craterus ranks 9. Before hi
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Long before George R.R. Martin penned his tale of war, intrigue and treachery the ancient world was scene to its own version of Game of Thrones.
(This is the eighth in a series concerning the Wars of the Diadochi. Part 1 can be read here, and includes comprehensive biographies of the players in this drama. It is strongly advised that you start there before reading on here. The previous installment, Part 7, can be found here . Stay tuned to this blog for future installments! Special thanks to Michael Park for his indispensable help in filling in the gaps in the sources and putting-up with my incessant questions!)
It was now early summer, 320, three years after the death of Alexander the Great[1]. Perdiccas, to whom Alexander had passed his signet ring on his death-bed; and who had ruled the empire ever since was now dead as well, murdered by his mutinous officers. He had played the “game of thrones” to win, gambling all and coming up short.
The day after his death there was an assembly of the Macedonian Royal Army in their camp in Egypt. Ptolemy son of Lagos,
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The Work of Craterus and the Documents in the Attic Orators and in the “Lives of the Ten Orators”
In the manuscripts containing the speeches of Andocides, Aeschines and Demosthenes there are many documents inserted into the text. The work the “Lives of the Ten Orators” attributed to Plutarch also contains several documents, which appear to be decrees of the Athenian Council and Assembly. Ever since the nineteenth century, several scholars have believed that the editors who inserted some of these documents into the text found them in the work of Craterus known from several sources as “The Collection of Decrees” (Συναγωγὴ ψηφισμάτων). For instance, Ladek in an essay about the decrees preserved in the “Lives of the Ten Orators” (Plut. X orat. 850f–852e) follows the view of A. G. Becker that these decrees ultimately went back to the work of Craterus who copied them from the state archive of Athens.[1] More recently, D. M. MacDowell in 1990 asserted that four of the five laws preserved in the speech of Demosthenes “Against Meidias” might have come from the collection of Craterus.
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