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