Crates

Crates can mean:

• Plural of "crate", pronounced as one syllable
• A Greek name (Κράτης), pronounced as two syllables:
  • Crates (comic poet), the poet of Old Comedy, and actor
  • Crates of Thebes, the Hellenistic Cynic philosopher
  • Crates (engineer) of Alexander the Great
  • Crates of Mallus, the Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher
  • Crates of Athens, Polemon's successor as head of the Platonic Academy
  • Crates of Tralles, the rhetorician