Crates of Thebes 365 BC – 285 BC

Crates of Thebes was a Greek Cynic philosopher and the principal student of Diogenes of Sinope. Born wealthy, he gave away his property to his city and adopted the Cynic life of poverty, wandering, and frank speech. He married Hipparchia, a fellow philosopher of equal standing, and the two lived openly as Cynic spouses, an arrangement scandalous and admired in equal measure. Among his students at Athens was Zeno of Citium, the future founder of Stoicism, and his thought left a lasting mark on the early Stoic conception of virtue and the self-sufficient sage.