Sosicrates

Sosicrates of Rhodes (Greek: Σωσικράτης; floruit c. 180 BC) was a Greek historical writer. Sosicrates was born on the island Rhodes and is noted, chiefly, for his frequent mention by Diogenes Laërtius in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers^[1] — referencing Sosicrates as the sole authority behind such facts as Aristippus having written nothing.^[2] It is inferred that Sosicrates flourished after Hermippus and before Apollodorus of Athens, and, therefore, sometime between 200 and 128 BC. Sosicrates is claimed to have penned a Successions of Philosophers, quoted by both Athenaeus^[3] and Diogenes Laërtius.^[4] Sosicrates also composed a work on the history of Crete^[5] — though neither of the aforementioned works have survived.

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• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 3, page 882