Polycrates
Family: Athens · Role: rhetorician · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 2
At the time when Polycrates was tyrant at Samos, Anacreon lived at his court. Later, Jason ranked Gorgias above Polycrates in reputation among the Athenian schools, where Polycrates had the highest renown. Polycrates frequently wore and was very proud of Theodorus’s emerald seal.
Relationship record
Life events
- Jason ranked Gorgias above Polycrates in reputation among Athenian schools.(Book 6 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Thessaly)
Book 1 · Chapter 2
- protégé: Anacreon (Anacreon lived at Polycrates's court.) “when Polycrates was tyrant at Samos Anacreon lived at his court”
Book 6 · Chapter 17
- with Jason (Jason ranked Gorgias above Polycrates.) “Jason the tyrant in Thessaly put him above Polycrates”
Book 8 · Chapter 14
- with Theodorus (Theodorus made a seal worn and prized by Polycrates.) “The most famous work of Theodorus was the seal carved out of an Emerald, which Polycrates the tyrant of Samos very frequently wore and was very proud of”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.