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Hermocrates (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμοκράτης) of Phocaea was a philosopher of ancient Greece, who lived in the 2nd century CE. He came from a renowned lineage of philosophers, being the grandson of the sophist Attalus and great-grandson of Polemon of Laodicea. He studied under Claudius Rufinus Sophistes of Smyrna. His parents were the otherwise unknown Rufianus and Callisto. He married a daughter of Antipater.

Hermocrates died at the age of twenty-five, or twenty-eight, according to other accounts. The writer Philostratus pronounces him one of the most distinguished rhetoricians of his age.

References

1. Clinton, Henry Fynes (1853). Clinton, Henry Fynes (ed.). An Epitome of the Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople: From the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius. University Press. p. 351. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
2. Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.25
3. Johann Albert Fabricius Bibliotheca Graeca vol. vi. p. 131

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Hermocrates (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 413.

• Roman-era Sophists
• 2nd-century Romans
• 2nd-century philosophers