Amphicrates of Athens

Biographical information

Amphicrates was forced to leave Athens (for his own safety from the hatred of later critics, additional sources show him instead only visiting his destination ) in 86 B.C, living henceforward in Seleucia on the Tigris. When responding to a plea for the creation of a rhetoric school in Seleucia he replied that he could not for

His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence.

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