Polycrates (disambiguation)
Polycrates (Ancient Greek: Πολυκράτης, Polykratēs) may refer to:
Persons
- Polycrates, tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC
- Polycrates (sophist) (c. 440-370 BC), author of paradoxical encomia and an Accusation of Socrates
- Polycrates of Ephesus (fl. c. AD 130-196), bishop
Other
- Dalla polycrates, a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family
- Der Ring des Polykrates (poem), a lyrical ballad written in 1797
- Polycrates complex, a desire to be punished
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