Amphicrates of Athens () was a sophist and rhetorician (of the Asiatic school).
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
His exile from Greece culminated in death from starvation, caused supposedly by his own abstinence.