These are said that he misused his ample fortune owing to the Macedonian invasion, however a further likely story is that he sacrificed it within accordance by owning his lesson, directing the banker, to whom he entrusted it, to give it to his sons whenever it should prove fools, but to the poor people whenever his sons should prove philosophers.

He gave higher his life to a attainment of virtue & the propagation of ascetic self-control. His habit of typing houses for this purpose, uninvited, earned him a nickname "Door-opener". His marriage by owning Hipparchia, daughter of the loaded Thracian family, was in curious direct contrast to the prosaic character of his life.

Attracted per nobility of his character & undiscouraged by his impoverishment & ugliness, she insisted inside becoming his married woman in defiance of her father's commands. A date of his demise is unknown, though he seems to develop lived into a 4th century BC.

His writings were couple. Based on data from Diogenes Laërtius, he was the author of a number of letters on philosophical subjects; but those extant under the name of Crates are spurious, the work of later rhetoricians. Diogenes Laërtius credits him by having the short verse form, & many philosophical tragedies. Plutarch's life of Crates is lost. A swell importance of Crates' act is that he formed a hyperlink between Cynicism & a Stoics, Zeno of Citium being his pupil.

This entry was originally from either a 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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