Biography:Alexicrates
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Short description: 1st-century Pythagorean philosopher
Alexicrates (Greek: Ἀλεξικράτης) was a Pythagorean philosopher who lived at the time of Plutarch (that is, around the turn of the 1st century AD),[1] and whose disciples continued to observe the ancient diet of the Pythagoreans, abstaining from fish altogether.[2] Another person of this name occurs in Plutarch.[3]
References
- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexicrates". in William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 128. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=143.
- ↑ Plutarch, Sympos. viii. p. 728
- ↑ Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus 5
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed (1870). "Alexicrates". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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