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Crates is a Greek given name (Κράτης), pronounced as two syllables. It may refer to:
- Crates (comic poet) (probably fl. late 450s or very early 440s BC), Old Comedy poet and actor from Athens
- Crates (engineer), 4th century BC engineer who accompanied Alexander the Great
- Crates of Thebes (c. 365-c. 285 BC), Hellenistic Cynic philosopher
- Crates of Athens (died 268-264 BC), Polemon's successor as head of the Platonic Academy
- Crates of Mallus, 2nd century BC Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher
- Crates of Tralles, a rhetorician
Crates was an Athenian Old Comic poet, who was victorious three times at the City Dionysia, first probably in the late 450s or very early 440s BCE (IG II2 2325. 52; just before Callias and Teleclides); a scholium on Aristophanes Knights 537 (test. 3. 2) reports that he was originally one of Cratinus' actors. Aristophanes at Knights 537–40 (424 BCE) refers to him as an important representative of the previous generation, and according to Aristotle in the Poetics (test. 5) the influence of the Sicilian comic poets made him the first Athenian comic poet to abandon the ‘iambic’ style and produce plays with a connected storyline. The Suda (test. 1. 1) reports that his brother was an epic poet named Epilycus (otherwise unknown).
Crates or Craterus was a mining (μεταλλευτής metalleutes) and hydraulic engineer, who accompanied Alexander the Great. He was entrusted with draining Lake Copais in Boeotia and contributed to the construction of Alexandria. It appears that Crates may have been an Olynthian who settled in the Euboean mother-city, Chalcis, after the destruction of Olynthus in 348 BC.
Usage examples of "crates".
The children were trying very hard not to stare at tails that flicked out of the way of bouncing crates or stumbling feet, but gave no sign of fear.
Pallet loaders, large, small, and staggeringly huge, rolled around the floor, picking up crates and packages from teetering stacks of merchandise.
My experts think you'll be able to rig drop-traps for them, using packing crates with field generators across the front and rations for bait.
There would be shredded paper bedding in the crates as well as food and water—and each victim would wear a contact-button glued to the spine between the shoulder blades with surgical adhesive.
Alex had already set up the site machine shop servos to drill air holes in all of the crates, and there would be an unbreakable bio-luminescent lightstick in each.
Right now, a set of servos were setting up crates all over the compound, near the hiding places of the Zombies.
The Zombies were going to have to deal with the constant acceleration to hyper as best they could—at least she knew that they were all sitting or lying down, because the crates simply weren't big enough for them to stand.
Once the shipment arrived at the Institute, a worker inside the receiving area would set the crates with particular marks aside and leave them on the loading dock overnight.
Les replied, tossing the last of the crates off the sled for the servo to pick up.
Stationers were firing from behind barricades of machinery and crates in the open space beyond.
The crates of xeno material had already been taken away in a specially sealed container.
Muddy yellow-brown pebbles scattered against the crates of unimaginably precious air-recirculation valves.
Midnight demanded, as behind him the Cridi freed themselves from the crates and other containers.
The small drones rumbled across the rocky plane with impossibly high piles of crates on their backs.
He evaded a roundhouse kick Keff aimed at him, grabbed Keff's leg, and propelled him backward over the stack of crates toward the image of the third console.