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Polycrates (c.440-370 B.C.) was a sophist of Athens, who later retired to Cyprus.John Lemprière John Lemprière (c. 1765, Jersey – 1 February 1824, London) was an English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster. Life John Lemprière was the son of Charles Lemprière (died 1801), of Mont au Prêtre, Jersey. ...
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He wrote a work variously titled (here given as), ''The Indictment of
Socrates Socrates (; ; –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no te ...
'', thought written sometime during the 390's B.C. and also works, according to one source lauding, to another condemning, the individual
Clytaemnestra Clytemnestra (; grc-gre, Κλυταιμνήστρα, ''Klytaimnḗstrā'', ), in Greek mythology, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the twin sister of Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' '' Oresteia'', she murders Agamemnon – said ...
, who was known to have murdered her husband, and Busiris who killed and ate his guests. In addition to this verses on cooking pots, mice, counters, pebbles and salt.John Lemprière John Lemprière (c. 1765, Jersey – 1 February 1824, London) was an English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster. Life John Lemprière was the son of Charles Lemprière (died 1801), of Mont au Prêtre, Jersey. ...
"/> The poet
Aeschrion of Samos Aeschrion (ancient Greek, Gr. ) was an Iambus (genre), iambic poet, and a native of Samos Island, Samos. He is mentioned by Athenaeus, who has preserved some choliambic verses of his, in which he defends the Samian Philaenis, claiming that the po ...
also claimed that Polycrates was the author of the sex manual traditionally attributed to Philaenis of Samos.


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{{Authority control 4th-century BC writers 4th-century BC Greek people Ancient Athenians