Brill's Companion to Crantor of Soli /

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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Other Authors: Fleischer, Kilian (Editor), Simone, Pia De (Editor), Vassallo, Christian (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill's Companions to Philosophy ; 9.

Subjects:

Ancient Philosophy.
Classical Studies.

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Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.