Editing Cratippus of Athens

{{Short description|4th-century BC Athenian historian}}
'''Cratippus''' ({{langx|grc|Κράτιππος}}; fl. {{circa}}&nbsp;375 BC) was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[historian]]. There are only three or four references to him in ancient literature, and his importance derives from him being identified by several scholars (e.g. [[Friedrich Blass|Blass]]) with the author of the historical fragment discovered by Grenfell and Hunt. The fragment itself was published in [[Oxyrhyncus|''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'']], vol. v, and is known as the ''[[Hellenica Oxyrhynchia]]''. It may be regarded as a fairly certain inference from a passage in [[Plutarch]] (''{{lang|la|De Gloria Atheniensium}}'', p.&nbsp;345 E, ed. Bernardakis, ii. p.&nbsp;455) that he was an [[Athens|Athenian]] writer, intermediate in date between [[Thucydides]] and [[Xenophon]], and that his work continued the narrative of Thucydides, from the point at which the latter historian stopped (410 BC) down to the [[Battle of Cnidus]].

A recent edition of the surviving papyrus fragments is V. Bartoletti, ''Hellenica Oxyrhynchia'' (Leipzig, 1959), which includes a bibliography.

==Further reading==
*{{cite journal |last=Gomme |first=A. W. |author-link= Arnold Wycombe Gomme|year=1954 |title=Who Was 'Kratippos'? |journal=The Classical Quarterly |volume=4 |issue=1–2 |pages=53–55 |doi=10.1017/S0009838800007886 |s2cid=170930375 }}
*{{cite journal |last=Lehmann |first=Gustav A. |year=1976 |title=Ein Historiker namens Kratippos|language=de |journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |volume=23 |pages=265–288 |issn=0084-5388 }}
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{{EB1911|wstitle=Cratippus|volume=7|page=382}}

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