---
name: Crates the Comic Poet
name_greek: Κράτης ὁ Κωμικός
eul_aid: dac
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/crates-the-comic-poet-dac"
period: Classical
dialect: Attic Comedy
works_count: 4
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Crates the Comic Poet

*Κράτης ὁ Κωμικός*

**eul_aid:** `dac` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/crates-the-comic-poet-dac)

Crates was an Athenian comic playwright of 5th century BCE Old Comedy. Works include his fragments. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Animated Feast](https://eulogikon.org/works/crates-comic-animated-feast-dac-aa) — *Ἀποσπάσματα* · `dac-aa`
- [Fragments of a Utopian Feast](https://eulogikon.org/works/crates-comic-utopian-feast-dac-ab) — *Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Εὐδαίμονος Δείπνου* · `dac-ab`
- [Fragments on Eratosthenes](https://eulogikon.org/works/crates-comic-eratosthenes-fragments-dac-ad) — *Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἐρατοσθένους* · `dac-ad`
- [Fragments on Love and Decorum](https://eulogikon.org/works/crates-comic-love-decorum-dac-ac) — *Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἔρωτος καὶ Εὐσχημοσύνης* · `dac-ac`

## License and provenance

Eulogikon publishes public-domain Greek texts in cleaned, structured, readable form and makes no copyright claim over that preparation (Public Domain Mark 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Author records and the underlying corpus are at https://eulogikon.org/.