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Crantor
Crantor
c. 340 BCE–c. 275 BCE · Athens
Crantor of Soli was a Greek philosopher of the late 4th and early 3rd century BCE, a member of the Academy founded by Plato. He is noted as the first to write a commentary on a Platonic dialogue, the 'Timaeus,' and for an influential work 'On Grief' that shaped the later tradition of consolation writing. His works survive only in fragments and later citation.
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AthensAttica (Greece)
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Isocrates, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Crantor’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Isocrates, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Hegesippus, Aeschines, Philip of Opus, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Demades, Aristoxenus, Theophrastus, Dinarchus
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