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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRANTOR  , a

Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, was born, probably about the
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middle of the 4th century 11.c., at Soli in
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Cilicia . He was a
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fellow-pupil of Polemo in the school of
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Xenocrates at Athens, and was the first commentator on
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Plato . He is said to have written some poems which he sealed up and deposited in the temple of Athens at Soli (Diog . Laertius iv . 5 . 25) . Of his celebrated
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work On Grief (IIepl ir&Oovs), a letter of condolence to his friend Hippocles on the
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death of his children, numerous extracts have been preserved in Plutarch's Consolatio ad A pollonium and in the De consolatione of
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Cicero, who speaks of it (Acad. ii . 44 . 135) in the highest terms (aureolus et ad verbum ediscendus) . Crantor paid especial attention to ethics, and arranged " good " things in the following order—virtue,
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health, pleasure, riches . See F . Kayser,:De Crantore Academico (1841); M .

H . E . Meier, Opuscula academica, ii . (1863) ; F . Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit, i . (1891), p . 118 .

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