Amphicrates of Athens

Amphicrates of Athens (Ἀμφικράτης) was a sophist and rhetorician (of the Asiatic school ).

Biographical information
Amphicrates was forced to leave Athens (for his own safety from the hatred of later critics, additional sources show him instead only visiting his destination ) in 86 B.C, living henceforward in Seleucia on the Tigris. When responding to a plea for the creation of a rhetoric school in Seleucia he replied that he could not for a dish cannot hold a dolphin

His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence.