Amphicrates of Athens[1] (Greek: Ἀμφικράτης) was a sophist[2] and rhetorician[3] (of the Asiatic school[4]).
Amphicrates was forced to leave Athens (for his own safety from the hatred of later critics,[5] additional sources show him instead only visiting his destination[6][3] ) in 86 B.C, living henceforward in Seleucia on the Tigris.[5] When responding to a plea for the creation of a rhetoric school in Seleucia he replied that he could not for
His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence.[9]