Pancrates of Athens

Pancrates ( _el. Παγκρατης) of Athens, was a Cynic philosopher who lived c. 140 AD. Philostratus relates, that when the celebrated sophist Lollianus was in danger of being stoned by the Athenians in a tumult about bread, Pancrates quieted the mob by exclaiming that Lollianus was not a "bread-dealer" ( _el. ἀρτοπώλης) but a "word-dealer" ( _el. λογοπώλης). [Philostratus, "Vitae Sophistarum", 1.23.] Alciphron also mentions a Cynic philosopher of this name in his fictitious letters. [Alciphron, "Epistles", iii. 55.]

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