Crantor
historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the Old Academic
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Philosopher and author of a Consolation cited for the Elysius of Terina anecdote.
for he says that a certain Elysius of Terina, when he was grievously mourning the death of his son, came to a place of consulting the dead, asking what had been the cause of so great a calamity;
And not absurdly did Crantor — who was among the very foremost noble men in our Academy — say:
Nature brings the pain, to which indeed your Crantor, they say, thinks one must yield;
Academica
Academic philosopher who maintained the tradition received from Plato's early successors.
But Speusippus and Xenocrates, who were the first to take up Plato's method and authority, and after them Polemo and Crates, and together with them Crantor, gathered in the Academy, diligently maintained what they had received from their predecessors.