person
Crantor of Soli
Crantor
also: Crantor, Crantore
Academic philosopher (c. 335-275 BC), pupil of Xenocrates and Polemo and the first commentator on Plato's Timaeus. Cicero names him among the guardians of the Old Academic tradition; his On Grief was a model for the Consolatio.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.115 Something similar occurs in the \textit{Consolation} of Crantor
Crantor of Soli, the Academic philosopher whose treatise On Grief (Peri penthous) was the model for ancient consolation literature, including Cicero's own. Cicero retells from it the tale of Elysius of Terina and the oracle on his dead son Euthynous.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.12 that famous Crantor
Crantor of Soli (c. 335-275 BC), of the Old Academy, author of an influential treatise On Grief (Peri penthous) that lies behind much ancient consolation literature. Cicero quotes his rejection of Stoic 'insensibility' (apatheia).
- Tusculan Disputations §3.71 your own Crantor thinks one must yield
Crantor of the Old Academy, whose On Grief held that nature's pain must to some degree be yielded to (against Stoic apatheia). The opponents invoke him to argue that grief is natural and irresistible.