Polycrates (sophist) explained

Polycrates (c.440-370 B.C.) was a sophist of Athens, who later retired to Cyprus.^{[1] [2] [3]}

He wrote a work titled The Indictment of Socrates, thought to have been written during the 390s BC. He wrote works about the Greek mythical characters Clytaemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and Busiris, a king of Egypt. He also wrote verses on cooking pots, mice, counters, pebbles and salt.  ^{[1] [2] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

The poet Aeschrion of Samos claimed that Polycrates was the author of the sex manual traditionally attributed to Philaenis of Samos.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Book: A Classical Dictionary containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in antient authors with the value of coins, weights and measures, used among the Greeks and Romans, and a chronological table . John Lemprière . John Lemprière . T Cadell 1893. 20 March 2019. 1839.
2. Book: The Oxford Classical Dictionary (p.1176). D Russell, St John's College Oxford. Oxford University Press . 2012 . 20 March 2019 . 9780199545568.
3. Book: O'Grady, Patricia. The Sophists: An Introduction . Patricia O'Grady . A&C Black . 2013 . 155–156 . 9781472521194 . 20 March 2019.
4. [William Keith Chambers Guthrie]
5. Polycrates of Athens . 22 . 23; see line two . He composed declamations on paradoxical themes.
6. [Jacqueline de Romilly]
7. Richard Bentley, Alexander Dyce - Anglistica and Americana (p.193-4) Georg Olms Verlag 1836 [Retrieved 2015-05-02]
8. West. M. L.. Erinna. ZPE. 25. 1977. 118.