Amphicrates of Athens

Amphicrates of Athens was a sophist and rhetorician.

Biographical information

Amphicrates was forced to leave Athens in 86 B.C, living henceforward in Seleucia on the Tigris. When responding to a plea for the creation of a rhetoric school in Seleucia he replied that he could not for
His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence.