Polycrates ( -370 B.C.) was a sophist from Athens, who later retired to the island of Cyprus.
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.William Keith Chambers Guthrie - Socrates (p.11) Cambridge University Press, 1971 (reprint, revised) Volume 2 of Fifth-Century Enlightenment [Retrieved 2015-05-02]Jacqueline de Romilly - A Short History of Greek Literature (p.128) University of Chicago Press, 1985 [Retrieved 2015-05-02]Richard Bentley, Alexander Dyce - Anglistica and Americana (p.193-4) Georg Olms Verlag 1836 [Retrieved 2015-05-02]
The poet Aeschrion of Samos claimed that Polycrates was the author of the sex manual traditionally attributed to Philaenis of Samos.
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