Echecrates

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In ancient Greece, Echecrates () was the name of the following men:

• Echecrates of Thessaly, a military officer of Ptolemy IV Philopator, documented around 219–217 BC.
• A son of Demetrius the Fair (c. 285–250 BC) by Olympias of Larissa, and brother of Antigonus III Doson. He had a son named Antigonus after his uncle.
• Three Pythagorean philosophers mentioned by Iamblichus:
  • A Locrian, one of those to whom Plato is said to have gone for instruction. The name Caetus in Valerius Maximus is perhaps an erroneous reading for Echecrates.
  • A Tarentine, probably the same who is mentioned in Plato's Ninth Letter.
  • Echecrates of Phlius, a contemporary with Aristoxenus the Peripatetic.

References

References

1. Liv. xl. 54; see vol. i. pp. 187, 189, b.
2. Vit. Pyth. ad fin.
3. Cic. de Fin. v. 29.
4. viii. 7, Ext. 3
5. Diog. Laërt. viii. 46; comp. Gell. iv. 11; Fabric. ''Bibl. Graec.'' i. p. 861.

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