Brill's Companion to Crantor of Soli /
This book represents the first monograph (miscellany) entirely devoted to Crantor of Soli (app. 335-275 BCE), an outstanding figure of the Old Academy. He was in particular famous for his On Grief , an exemplary work of consolation literature, and for his being the first commentator of Plato's...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Brill's Companions to Philosophy ;
9.
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Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3
- Introduction: Preliminary Questions to Be Settled for a New Comprehensive Edition of the Testimonia to Crantor of Soli
- 1 Towards a Reappraisal of Crantor's Role in the History of the Hellenistic Academy
- Andrea Beghini
- 2 Crantor's 'New' Life in Philodemus' Index Academicorum
- Kilian Fleischer
- 3 Crantor and the Earliest Phase of the Platonic Commentary Tradition
- Harold Tarrant and Dirk Baltzly
- 4 Crantor's Ethical Side: The Treatise On Grief and Other Related Questions
- Pia De Simone
- 5 On the 'Backstage' of Crantor's Ultimate Good
- Christian Vassallo
- 6 Crantor as the Author of Alcibiades II
- Harold Tarrant
- 7 Crantor and the Psychogony in the Timaeus
- Svetoslava Slaveva-Griffin
- 8 Proclus on Crantor on Plato's Atlantis
- Christian Vassallo
- Appendix: Literalist, Non-literalist, and Allegorical Interpretations of the Atlantis Story
- Christian Vassallo
- Indices.