Echecrates

In ancient Greece, Echecrates was the name of the following men:

• A Thessalian military officer of Ptolemy IV Philopator, em­ployed in the levying of troops and their arrange­ment into separate companies in preparation of the war against Antiochus III the Great (219 BC). He was entrusted with the command of the Greek forces in Ptolemy's pay, and of all the mercenary cavalry, and did good service in the war, especially at the battle of Raphia in 217 BC.
• A son of Demetrius the Fair (c. 285–250 BC) by Olympias of Larissa, and brother of Antigonus III Doson. He had a son named Antigonus after his uncle.
• Three Pythagorean philosophers mentioned by Iamblichus:

• A Locrian, one of those to whom Plato is said to have gone for instruction. The name Caetus in Valerius Maximus is perhaps an erroneous reading for Echecrates.
• A Tarentine, probably the same who is men­tioned in Plato's Ninth Letter.
• Echecrates of Phlius, a contemporary with Aristoxenus the Peripatetic.

References

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