Crates can mean:
- Plural of "crate", pronounced as one syllable
- A Greek name (Κράτης), pronounced as two syllables:
- Crates (comic poet), the poet of Old Comedy, and actor
- Crates of Thebes, the Hellenistic Cynic philosopher
- Crates (engineer) of Alexander the Great
- Crates of Mallus, the Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher
- Crates of Athens, Polemon's successor as head of the Platonic Academy
- Crates of Tralles, the rhetorician
Famous quotes containing the word crates:
“We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)