Cratippus of Pergamon

Kratippos of Pergamum (Greek Κράτιππος, latin Cratippus, * in Pergamon ) a Greek philosopher in the 1st century BC was His writings are lost, and he is just out - sometimes detailed - mentions known, particularly in Cicero, but also Plutarch.

Kratippos Peripatetics and was a close friend of Cicero, whom he met in Mytilene BC 51. In Mytilene he stayed well at least until 48 BC, when he before the battle of Pharsalus Pompey sought to comfort him with the doctrine of providence. Cicero himself, Brutus were instructed by Kratippos. No later than 44 BC, he was at the school of the Peripatetic school in Athens, where 44/43 BC, Cicero's son Marcus was his student and apparently accompanied him on a trip to Asia. Cicero's appreciation of the philosopher, he was one of the most important in the Peripatetic school, went so far that he asked of Caesar Roman citizenship for him and the Areopagus in Athens called on to adopt a decree Kratippos should ask, as a teacher in Athens Me, as an ornament of the city.

From the factory, or the world of ideas, his doctrine is nothing more is known except that he believed the prophecies and dreams meted importance. Alone to the dreams he seems to have left a factory and Cicero delivered in this context in the text, the only request made by Kratippos doctrinal decision.