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Cratippus
Greek historian
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influenced by Thucydides
- In Thucydides: Scope and plan of the History
…is known: that three historians, Cratippus (a younger contemporary), Xenophon (who lived a generation later), and Theopompus (who lived in the last third of the 4th century), all began their histories of Greece where Thucydides left off. Xenophon, one might say, began the next paragraph nearly as abruptly as Thucydides…
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