Pancrates of Athens

Pancrates (Greek: Παγκρατης; fl. c. 140 AD) of Athens, was a Cynic philosopher. Philostratus relates, that when the celebrated sophist Lollianus was in danger of being stoned by the Athenians in a tumult about bread, Pancrates quieted the mob by exclaiming that Lollianus was not a bread-dealer (Greek: ἀρτοπώλης) but a word-dealer (Greek: λογοπώλης).^[1] Alciphron also mentions a Cynic philosopher of this name in his fictitious letters.^[2]

Notes

↑ Philostratus, Vitae Sophistarum, 1.23.
↑ Alciphron, Epistles, iii. 55.

Cynic philosophers

Greek era	Antisthenes Diogenes Diodorus Zoilus Onesicritus Philiscus Crates Hipparchia Metrocles Monimus Cleomenes Bion Sotades Menippus Menedemus Cercidas Teles Meleager

Roman era	Favonius Demetrius Dio Chrysostom Agathobulus Secundus Demonax Peregrinus Proteus Theagenes Oenomaus Pancrates Crescens Heraclius Horus Asclepiades Sallustius

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